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Note: Use for countable nouns.

Fewer

/ˈfjuː.ɚ/

Synonyms for "fewer" (12 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

Determiner(2 words)
less frictional heatingless in number

Strong matches (3)

Noun(2 words)
less numerousless numerous items
Determiner(1 words)
less publicness

Related words (6)

Determiner(5 words)
lower countnot as manyreduced countsmaller numbersmaller number of

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

2 entries

More specific

4 entries
count noun usagefewer pagesfewer than tensmaller count

Collocations

10 entries
fewer caloriesfewer carsfewer daysfewer distractionsfewer errorsfewer mistakesfewer pagesfewer problemsfewer studentsfewer than

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Antonyms

1 entries

similar

2 entries

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?

Source: tatoeba (22111)

It's true that there are fewer children due to the falling birthrate, and there are fewer children in the school, but that is all to the good.

Source: tatoeba (40910)

If there weren't so many taxis, there would be fewer traffic accidents.

Source: tatoeba (40955)

Pretty soon there were more of them on the road and fewer carriages pulled by horses.

Source: tatoeba (50804)

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