Less is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful.
• To make less; to lessen.
PRONOUN:
• smaller part or quantity
PREPOSITION:
• after deducting, minus
NOUN:
• a smaller portion
• smaller amount
• A smaller portion or quantity.
• The inferior, younger, or smaller.
DETERMINER:
• a small amount of
• a short time or distance
• used to emphasize how small an amount is
CONJUNCTION:
• Unless.
ADVERB:
• to a small extent
• only to a small extent; not much or often (used for emphasis)
• hardly or not at all
• used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
• comparative of little
• smaller extent or degree
ADJECTIVE:
• small in size, amount, or degree (often used to convey an appealing diminutiveness or express an affectionate or condescending attitude)
• (of a person) young or younger
• denoting something, especially a place, that is the smaller or smallest of those so named or is named after a similar larger one
• used in names of animals and plants that are smaller than related kinds, e.g. little grebe.
• of short distance or duration
• relatively unimportant or trivial (often used ironically)
• 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.
• (comparative of `little\' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree
• (usually preceded by `no\') lower in quality
• (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer
• smaller in extent, degree, or duration
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not as great in quantity or degree

Words related to LESS

least5 lesser6 lesses6

Words that contain LESS

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How to use LESS in a sentence

• At the same time, if Mathieu had renounced the actual exercise of authority, he none the less remained the creator, the oracle who was consulted, listened to, and obeyed.
• Trouble awaited him there on every hand, and during the next two years he had to meet no less than thirteen revolts or wars.
• I shall sleep better in my little room, and wake less unhappy.
• And in this pity he seems not to weep for us, still less for himself, but to tell us to dry our tears and be good, and listen to his magic flute.
• If any one of them had been an inch awry I should have known it, and would have felt less of an intruder.
• Through the courage and great exertions of those who had the animals in charge, many were recovered, but none without having sustained more or less injury.
• The record of Europe, and especially of Great Britain as distinguished from other European powers, has been equally plain, and is no less indisputable.
• He was, in truth, less completely overwhelmed by his catastrophe than he knew.
• For instance, that deer cannot be over 800 yards away and not less than 400 yards.
• This way of learning the use of words is exactly the opposite of that just discussed, and is less common because more laborious.
• Still less would the careful doctor who examined the convicts consider himself guilty.
• When the day is thoroughly taken up with dry-painting and ceremonies, there is less of the ceremonial at night.
• All told, hardly less than three-fourths of a million Negroes went North within the four years 1915-1918.
• Owing to the Easter holidays the hotel was less bright and worldly than usual.
• CHAPTER XV All royal and imperial people are more or less superstitious, and neither Emperor William nor his brother monarch at Vienna are exceptions to the rule.
• And I suppose no church in Brooklyn has ever been subjected to less strain than this one.
• The American Red Cross made up this deficiency by supplying the bedding for no less than 3,000 beds.
• On the 13th we pursued our journey, and entered into the valleys between the mountains, where there lay not less than four or five feet of snow.
• Such was once my conjecture, but I am now less confident.
• The last reason, which the Quakers give for adopting the larger interpretation of the words in the sermon upon the Mount, as well as the less, is the following.
• Assuredly not the delicate feelings of horses, or cows, or pigs, and if so, much less those of an inanimate object, like a book.

Similar words containing LES without suffix s

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