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less 音标拼音: [l'ɛs] a. 更少的,更小的
ad. 更少地,更小地
n. 更少,较少 更少的,更小的更少地,更小地更少,较少 less小於 less adv 1: used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; " less interesting"; " less expensive"; " less quickly" [ synonym: { less}, { to a lesser extent}] [ ant: { more}, { to a greater extent}] 2: comparative of little; " she walks less than she should"; " he works less these days" [ ant: { more}] adj 1: ( 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" [ ant: { more than}, { more( a)}] 2: ( usually preceded by ` no') lower in quality; " no less than perfect" 3: ( 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" Less \ Less\, v. t. To make less; to lessen. [ Obs.] -- Gower. [ 1913 Webster]
Less \ Less\ ( l[ e^] s), conj. Unless. [ Obs.] -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster]
Less \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The substantive which less qualifies is often omitted; as, the purse contained less ( money) than ten dollars. See { Less}, n. [ 1913 Webster] Thus in less [ time] than a hundred years from the coming of Augustine, all England became Christian. -- E. A. Freeman. [ 1913 Webster]
Less \ 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Less \ Less\, n. 1. A smaller portion or quantity. [ 1913 Webster] The children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. -- Ex. xvi. 17. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The inferior, younger, or smaller. [ 1913 Webster] The less is blessed of the better. -- Heb. vii. 7. [ 1913 Webster]
- less \- less\ (- l[ e^] s) suff. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster] 89 Moby Thesaurus words for " 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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