LekhoriLekhoricomparative degree of little
I slept even less last night than I did the night before.
Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs.
Randal is less welcome than Rachel but as her spouse we should invite them both.
To a smaller extent or degree.
The grammar book was less than (that is, not at all) helpful.
comparative form of little: more little; of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser.
Those Rattels are somewhat like the chape of a Rapier, but lesse, which they take from the taile of a snake.
Minus; not including
It should then tax all of that as personal income, less the proportion of the car's annual mileage demonstrably clocked up on company business.
To make less; to lessen.
1386-90, Gower, Confessio Amantis What he will make lesse, he lesseth.
Alternative form of let's.
Lesser; smaller.
Such too, to a greater or less extent, is the condition of the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the great workhouse of the world.
A smaller amount or quantity.
Less is better.
unless
To tell you true, 'tis too good for you, 'less you had grace to follow it
Adverb From Middle English les, lesse, leasse, lasse, from Old English lǣs (“smaller, less”), from Proto-Germanic *laisiz, from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to shrink, grow thin, be gentle”). Cognate ...
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A smaller amount of; not as much.
No less than eight pints of beer.
Fewer; a smaller number of.
There are less people here now.