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less::adverb | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | to a lesser extent |
less interesting.
less expensive.
less quickly.
less::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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of less importance.
less time to spend with the family.
a shower uses less water.
less than three years old.
less::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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less than three weeks.
no less than 50 people attended.
in 25 words or less.
less::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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no less than perfect.
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she walks less than she should.
he works less these days.
Examples of less
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In the last five games, he has piled up 29 turnovers, just less than 6 per game.
From the dailyherald.com
People sentenced to a year or less serve their time in jail, not a state prison.
From the dailyherald.com
Lt. Mike Conforti describes a day less than a month ago when his convoy was hit.
From the abcnews.go.com
While the Post-Dispatch is good on diagnosis, they are less strong on solutions.
From the stltoday.com
With few exceptions, pension funding deficiencies are becoming less of an issue.
From the stltoday.com
The district set preschool tuition at more than $300 less than this year's rate.
From the stltoday.com
For her, she says, the slack comes in the form of a less than sparking bathroom.
From the desmoinesregister.com
She does not deserve to be in the human race, much less a Supreme Court Justice.
From the washingtontimes.com
Ahmanson is less involved in politics than he once was, though that is relative.
From the sacbee.com
- Less(a): (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree; "of less importance"; "less time to spend with the family"; "a shower uses less water"; "less than three years old"
- Used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "less interesting"; "less expensive"; "less quickly"
- (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
- Comparative of little; "she walks less than she should"; "he works less these days"
- (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"
- A privative, named from Latin '''' , "to deprive", is a particle that negates or inverts the value of the stem of the word. In Indo-European languages many privatives are prefixes; but they can also be suffixes, or more independent elements.
- Christian Friedrich Lessing (10 August 1809 u2013 13 March 1862) was a German botanist who was a native of Grou00DF Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808u20131880), and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729u20131781).
- Less is a band from the San Francisco Bay Area led by the enigmatically-monikered S. Foot. As of 2005, they have released two albums, Piano Wire Smile (2001) and Cover, Protective, Individual (2004), both on the Firecode Core label. ...
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