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What's The Definition Of Less?

[adv] used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "less interesting"; "less expensive"; "less quickly"
[adv] comparative of little; "she walks less than she should"; "he works less these days"
[adj] (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases; `we had less apples' is not acceptable) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"
[adj] (usually preceded by `no)' lower in esteem; "no less a person than the king himself"
[adj] (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Less: fewer | inferior | lower | to a lesser extent

Related Terms | Find terms related to Less: abated | ablated | at a disadvantage | at the nadir | attenuated | barring | bated | belittled | below | below the mark | common | consumed | contracted | curtailed | decreased | decreasingly | decrescendo | deflated | demeaning | diminished | diminishingly | diminuendo | disadvantaged | discounting | dissipated | dropped | eroded | ever less | except | excepting | exception taken of | excluding | exclusive of | fallen | fewer | from | humble | in the gutter | in the shade | inferior | infra dig | junior | least | least of all | leaving out | less and less | lesser | low | lower | lowered | lowly | miniaturized | minor | minus | modest | not counting | not so much | off | ordinary | reduced | retrenched | sans | save | scaled-down | second rank | second string | secondary | servile | shorn | short of | shorter | shrunk | shrunken | smaller | sub | subaltern | subject | subordinate | subservient | third rank | third string | under | under par | underprivileged | vulgar | watered-down | weakened | without | worn

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Less In Webster's Dictionary

\-less\ (-l[e^]s). [AS. le['a]s loose, false; akin to OS. l[=o]s loose, false, D. los loose, loos false, sly, G. los loose, Icel. lauss loose, vacant, Goth. laus empty, vain, and also to E. loose, lose. [root]127. See {Lose}, and cf. {Loose}, {Leasing}.] A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.
\Less\ (l[e^]s), conj. Unless. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
\Less\, a. [OE. lesse, AS. l[=ae]ssa; akin to OFries. l[=e]ssa; a compar. from a lost positive form. Cf. {Lesser}, {Lest}, {Least}. Less has the sense of the comparative degree of little.] Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before. Note: The substantive which less qualifies is often omitted; as, the purse contained less (money) than ten dollars. See {Less}, n. Thus in less [time] than a hundred years from the coming of Augustine, all England became Christian. --E. A. Freeman.
\Less\, adv. [AS. l[=ae]s. See {Less}, adj., and cf. {Lest}.] Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful.
\Less\, n. 1. A smaller portion or quantity. The children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. --Ex. xvi. 17. 2. The inferior, younger, or smaller. The less is blessed of the better. --Heb. vii. 7.
\Less\, v. t. To make less; to lessen. [Obs.] --Gower.

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