Though Alfred is scrupulous in fulfilling his duties at work, he is less conscientious about his obligations at home.
Source: tatoeba (1985)
Usage Contextgeneralediting
Note: Use for uncountable amounts in formal writing.
Less
//lɛs//
Synonyms for "less" (97 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (29)
Related words (48)
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Antonyms
8 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
32 entriesShowing 16 of 32 words.
distinct from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesform of
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
30 entriesShowing 16 of 30 words.
similar
6 entriesTranslations
118 translations across 51 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐλάσσων det (smaller number of)
Arabic
4 entries- أقل adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- أَقَلّ adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- أقل det (not as much)
- أقل det (smaller number of)
Belarusian
1 entries- менш adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Bourguignon
1 entries- moins adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Bulgarian
4 entries- по-ма́лко adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- по-малко det (not as much)
- по-малко det (smaller number of)
- без prep (not including)
Catalan
3 entries- menys adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- menys det (not as much)
- menys prep (not including)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 不太 adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- 不那么 adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- 更少 adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Czech
1 entries- méně adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Dutch
3 entries- minder adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- minder det (not as much)
- minder det (smaller number of)
Esperanto
1 entries- malpli adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Estonian
1 entries- vähem adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Finnish
4 entries- vähemmän adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- vähemmän det (not as much)
- vähemmän det (smaller number of)
- lukuun ottamatta prep (not including)
French
2 entries- moins adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- moins det (not as much)
Friulian
1 entries- mancul adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Galician
1 entries- menos det (not as much)
German
4 entries- weniger adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- weniger det (not as much)
- weniger det (smaller number of)
- verkleinern verb (to make less)
Gothic
3 entries- 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- 𐍆𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌶𐌰 det (not as much)
- 𐍆𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌶𐌰 det (smaller number of)
Greek
1 entries- λιγότερο adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- mwens adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Hebrew
1 entries- פָּחוֹת adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Hindi
2 entries- अल्प adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- न्यून adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Hungarian
3 entries- kevésbé adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- kevesebb det (not as much)
- kevesebb det (smaller number of)
Icelandic
1 entries- síður det (not as much)
Ido
1 entries- min adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Indonesian
1 entries- lebih sedikit det (smaller number of)
Interlingua
1 entries- minus adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Italian
2 entries- meno adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- meno det (not as much)
Japanese
2 entries- ...より少ない adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- それほど...ない adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Ladino
4 entries- manko adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- menos adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- manko det (not as much)
- menos det (not as much)
Latin
2 entries- minus adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- minus det (not as much)
Latvian
1 entries- mazāk adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- mjeńšy det (not as much)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- manner det (not as much)
- wéineger det (not as much)
Macedonian
1 entries- помалку adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Malay
1 entries- kurang adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Norman
2 entries- meins adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- mouôins adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Norwegian
4 entries- mindre adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- færre det (smaller number of)
- mindre det (not as much)
- fratrukket prep (not including)
Old Spanish
2 entries- menos adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- menos det (not as much)
Persian
1 entries- کمتر adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Picard
1 entries- moins adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Polish
1 entries- mniej adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Portuguese
4 entries- menos adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- menos det (not as much)
- menos det (smaller number of)
- exceto prep (not including)
Romanian
1 entries- mai puțin det (not as much)
Russian
4 entries- ме́нее adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- ме́ньше adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- ме́ньше det (not as much)
- ме́ньше det (smaller number of)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- manj adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- manje adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- manjše adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- мање adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Slovak
1 entries- menej adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Slovene
1 entries- manj adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Spanish
3 entries- en menos adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- menos adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- menos det (not as much)
Swedish
4 entries- lite adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- mindre adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- färre det (smaller number of)
- mindre det (not as much)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ме́нше adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- менш adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
- ме́ньше det (not as much)
- ме́ньше det (smaller number of)
Urdu
1 entries- کم adv (to a smaller extent or degree)
Sample sentences
47 total sentences available.
Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.
Source: tatoeba (2262)
You are not less pretty than her.
Source: tatoeba (14806)
You must be less impatient.
Source: tatoeba (16397)
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