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Main Entry:	less [les] Show IPA/lɛs/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	smaller, inferior
Synonyms:	beneath, declined, deficient, depressed, diminished, excepting, fewer, lacking, lesser, limited, lower, minor, minus, negative, not as great, reduced, secondary, shortened, shorter, slighter, subordinate, subtracting, unsubstantial, without
Notes:	fewer means a smaller number of individual things and less means a small quantity of something. A traditional rule of English usage holds that less should be used only of uncountable things, that is, things that can be measured but not counted as discrete units. Thus "less electricity," "less than a quart, " "less doubt." Fewer, on the other hand, should be used only of things that can be counted: "fewer people," "fewer cars." In actual usage, fewer almost always adheres to the traditional rule; the problem is that less is often used with countable things. generally, less applies to quantity while fewer applies to number; the traditional rule says that you should use fewer for things that can be counted (fewer than four players) but less with mass terms for things of measurable extent (less paper, less than a gallon of paint)
Antonyms:	bigger, more, superior

Main Entry:	little
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	small in size, amount
Synonyms:	Lilliputian, babyish, bantam, brief, cramped, diminutive, dinky, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hardly any, hasty, immature, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infant, infinitesimal, insufficient, junior, light, limited, meager, microscopic, mini, miniature, minute, not big, not large, peanut, petite, scant, short, short-lived, shrimpy, shriveled, skimpy, slight, snub, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, toy, truncated, undersized, undeveloped, wee, wizened, young
Antonyms:	big, enormous, giant, great, huge, immense, large, massive

Main Entry:	little
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	not important
Synonyms:	casual, inconsiderable, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, paltry, petty, shoestring, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant
Antonyms:	great, important, magnificent

Example Sentences

Psychiatrists are talking less and prescribing more.

Students seem to be spending less time studying than they used to.

In fact, cost-conscious consumers may start buying more fancy food than before, to make up for going out to restaurants less.

Psychiatrists are talking less and prescribing more.

Students seem to be spending less time studying than they used to.

In fact, cost-conscious consumers may start buying more fancy food than before, to make up for going out to restaurants less.

It will cost less and additional natural resources and energy won't be used to produce it.

City dwellers may handle pressure differently from those who live in less populated areas.

For protein, eat less beef and more pork, chicken and fish.

See how to get the look of built-in floating shelves, with less cost and more flexibility.

In parallel, the software started relying less on the manual, and more on its game experience.

Nations with more climatic disasters grew faster over the long run than the less disaster-prone.

Those obligations can keep faculty members from talking to one another, much less to their colleagues in other departments.

The company says production costs are kept to a minimum because they require less silicon.

If you painstakingly contemplate eating the food you're about to dig into, there's a good chance you'll eat less of it.

Anyhing to create less of an immunological impact would be wonderful.

In today's economy, spending less doesn't have to mean getting less.

Beware of the latest line in less lethal weapons: a scooter equipped with an air gun.

Exonerated defendants are less likely to have serious criminal records.

They had to wait tables for people who could be less than polite-people who sometimes reminded them of themselves.

Young people are more outward-looking and less traditional.

As a result, they are less responsive to their babies.

Nader ran to the roof of his apartment building, where he had a view of the towers less than two miles away.

It's less wasteful to purchase a small bottle, and the containers are recyclable.

Turns out wizards and knights seem far less noble when they're trying to steal your stuff.

The longer the lens, the less depth of field-in practice.

People judge alcohol drinkers as less intelligent.

Less well known is that he also painted in another medium, living organisms.

In dry form, they're usually less expensive than their organic counterparts.

Buying local doesn't always mean the purchase is less energy-intensive.

Smokers tend to be less happy than nonsmokers, and the effect is heighened the lower their economic status.

It's not clear to me whether ze thinks electric cars are less polluting than petrol-powered ones.

Fir plywood gives this home a warm look for less than standard wood paneling.

During the study farmers used smaller amounts pesticide because they saw less need.

Although some choice is undoubtedly better than none, more is not always better than less.

He told her it was a piece of reindeer bone, to make the coffee taste less bitter.

Because swimming isn't safe here, it gets much less crowded than other beaches in the area.

The organization sells treadle pumps through its own network of local distributors, usually for less than a hundred dollars.

More dust, less rain and even more dust can become a vicious cycle that ultimately creates increasingly more desert lands.

White seems to have been captivated by less digestible fare.

Americans use their bicycles for less than one percent of all urban trips.

Sleepy-looking less so by the second-offers him an elbow.

No one ever found any dead vultures, there were simply less and less of them.

Madagascar's giant jumping rats are less endangered than previously thought, new surveys suggest.

The birth of something less beastly could not be ruled out.

The less adventurous can view them from a boardwalk that winds through their nesting sites.

The cats are not transgenic animals-their genes have not been altered to make them less of an allergy risk.

The idea was that less words meant less thought and communication.

Less time in the kitchen may mean more time with the family, but not necessarily.

Less rain also means greater vulnerability to forest fires, further threatening the balance of the rain forest.

The operation known as hemispherectomy-where half the brain is removed-sounds too radical to ever consider, much less perform.

Shellfish are a far less dramatic prey but still an important part of the leopard seal's diet.

The ice elevation normally changes less than a tenth of that amount each year.

But some aspects of the buggies' design proved to be less than ideal.

Less brightness means less of the sun's energy is reflected back into space.

He found that the tighter connection, while less common, provides a much larger benefit.

Shielding buildings may soon become less expensive than that.

If the world hopes to feed its burgeoning population, irrigation must become less wasteful and more widespread.

See how to do more with less by emphasizing open spaces, organic materials, and the beauty of restraint.

Combing through a database of sleep-study volunteers, the researchers found two people who needed far less sleep than average.

For governments, the advent of electric cars means fuel-tax receipts will dwindle because drivers will buy less gasoline.

Many students pay less than full price thanks to financial.

To date, taxonomists have identified less than two million distinct species, mostly mammals and birds.

Test subjects who thought they'd taken a supplement made less healthful food and exercise choices than people who did.

He was impressive in motion and no less formidable when he was still.

You'll also cut down on oil changes because you get less residue.

People who sleep less appear to eat more the next day.

What they are getting is less taxes, higher tuition and less services.

The foreign parents tend to be less race and gender biased.

Come spring, healthier birds head home about a week sooner than their scrub-dwelling, less fit brethren.

Over the course of two weeks, the orangutans used even less energy than predicted.

Watching less television doesn't appear to change adult eating habits, but it does lead to a meaningful increase in activity.

Male professors are less accustomed to attracting attention because of their looks, and less comfortable with.

Modern medicine offers doctors a panoply of less invasive tools to thrust inside disease-stricken bodies.

Working memory, less developed in teens, also helps control emotions.

His aim was nothing less than an exhaustive record in watercolor.

These unique abodes are less tent and more reminiscent of a room at a luxury resort.

Because they burned more energy to run the same distance it indicates their bodies performed less efficiently after stretching.

One is efficiency: pursuing the same objectives at less cost.

It is well established in the research on higher education that women are less likely to achieve tenure than men.

It is better educated, highly urbanised, far more exposed to the outside world and much less patient.

Warm waters absorb less oxygen--which is bad news for the sea life that needs it.

Structural reforms are less important than talented teachers who are given the freedom to succeed.

Water early in the day, when there's less moisture loss due to heat evaporation and wind is less likely to blow water away.

The aid colleges are awarding is covering less of students' costs, the report shows.

As and when the market for structured finance revives, it will be smaller and less rewarding than before.

Despite their scale, each of the jets had come and gone within less than half a second.

Two of the paintings were later found in an unlocked car parked at a psychiatric facility, less than a mile from the museum.

Now, as summer approaches, many reservoirs are still less than half full.

My theory is that beer+popcorn=student essays seeming less painful to grade.

The more precise and unusual the request, the less people were able to resist it.

The less efficient you are, the more waste you produce.

What happens in the brain when you hear an accent--and why you are less likely to trust the speaker.

Maybe you're pleased that it cost less than a bottle of shampoo.

The simple two-cycle kinds have more efficient engines and require less mechanical know-how to stay in running order.

Some function on less power than others, which in turn saves money on utility.

Narrowly oval, green to gray-green leaves that reach less than an inch long clothe the random-growing.

Spring offers a less touristy experience, good weather, and more bang for the buck.

It makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed.

Eruptions of lava built up the volcano until it reached the sea surface less than a.

Single nuts are more or less enclosed in a cuplike cap.

Less is known about two other local orca types-transients and offshores-because of their less predictable ways.

There is little reason to fear a decade of stagnation, much less a depression.

Less often remarked upon, but more significant, is the important role that the ocean plays in our lives.

Today's tender turkeys take much less time to cook than tougher birds of yore.

The better it does its job, the less likely you are to stay awake to appreciate it.

These battery-driven, mechanical devices produce nothing less than the call of the wild.

Wiry stems make the plants less subject to breakage than petunias, and tobacco budworms seem uninterested in foliage and flowers.

Any diesel engine can burn it with less soot than regular diesel.

Research shows that lower-income and minority families often have less access.

The farmed fish, while typically less expensive than wild.

So far, the experience has made me want to work less and enjoy life more.

In less than ten years it has rapidly reached commercial extinction due to overcollection for the international pet trade.

New device quells blazes with less risk to firefighters.

Since this method cuts right through leaves, it's best done on small-leafed plants, where damage is less noticeable.

Here, game isn't too plentiful, so they have to be more clever-and less picky.

And the heavier the accent, the less believable they were perceived to be.

The screen siren might have added that another, less dazzling.

While their foliage and overall appearance are somewhat less than striking, many gardeners consider the.

With many alternate routes, streets can be narrower, making them safer to cross and less land intensive.

Commercial airlines are testing plant-derived jet fuels that do less damage to the environment.

Conversely, words that are smaller appear less frequently.

It might have been less work with a professional contractor or architect to oversee the project.

Explain to the students that they will be conducting research to find out about some of the less obvious benefits of trees.

Imagining the act of eating can trick you into eating less.

Her son always claimed credit for something less than that: putting the hole in the doughnut.

Tough, carefree shrubs may not be bothered by such intrusion, but less rugged individuals may be weakened.

Population is growing, leaving less and less to eat.

Leptin puts a double whammy on hunger by making food less rewarding.

RVs offer the flexibility to escape often and make memories for less than you think.

The bigger the container, the less frequently you'll have to water in hot weather, and the more room roots have to run.

Moist places, such as streamsides, in more or less open forest or in coastal scrub.

Overindulging in wine or spirits often makes the following morning much less enjoyable.

Early reluctance to use stamps actually hinged on something more subtle but no less important.

Single nuts are more or less enclosed in a cuplike.

As more water was diverted for agriculture, less and less river water flowed into the sea.

Push the pedal, and the brain is less able to rewire itself.

It's more or less impossible to define hysteria in a way that a physician today would find acceptable.

Most of the species of this genera, though less familiar, are choice plants for landscape use.

Few if any fish survive in acid lakes, so loons have less food for their young.

Preparing notes and bibliographies in a consistent style has long been one of the less glamorous tasks of academic writing.

Main Entry:	little
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	narrow-minded
Synonyms:	base, bigoted, cheap, contemptible, hidebound, illiberal, ineffectual, limited, mean, narrow, paltry, petty, provincial, self-centered, selfish, set, small, small-minded, vulgar, wicked
Antonyms:	magnanimous, open, open-minded

Main Entry:	little
Part of Speech:	adverb
Definition:	infrequently, not much
Synonyms:	a little, barely, hardly, hardly ever, not many, not often, not quite, only just, rarely, scarcely, seldom, somewhat
Antonyms:	frequently, more, much

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Main Entry:	little
Part of Speech:	adjective, adverb, noun
Related Adjectives:	invisible, little, short, atomic, corpuscular, cramp, cramped, dapper, diminutive, dumpy, duodecimo, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, embryonic, evanescent, exiguous, granular, homeopathic, impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, intangible, liliputian, limited, microscopic, miniature, minikin, minute, molecular, petty, pigmy, pocket, pollard, portable, portative, puny, rudimental, rudimentary, scant, scraggy, scrubby, shrunk, small, squat, stunted, thin, tiny, undersized, weazened, wee

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Main Entry:	baby
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	miniature
Synonyms:	babyish, diminutive, dwarf, little, midget, mini, minute, petite, small, tiny, wee, youthful
Antonyms:	big, giant, large

Main Entry:	bantam
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	small
Synonyms:	diminutive, little, petite, tiny
Antonyms:	big, huge, large

Main Entry:	brief
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	short, compressed
Synonyms:	abrupt, bluff, blunt, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, compendiary, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, hasty, laconic, limited, little, pithy, sharp, short and sweet, skimpy, small, snippy, succinct, surly, terse, to the point
Antonyms:	lengthy, long

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