less

1. 1.

   used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs

   “less interesting”

   “less expensive”

   “less quickly”

   Synonymsto a lesser extent

   Antonymsmore
2. 2.

   comparative of little

   “she walks less than she should”

   “he works less these days”

   Antonymsmore

Other forms of less

comparative

lesser·

superlative

lessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about less

What does less mean?

less means "(comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in less?

less has 1 syllable: less. In IPA it is /ˈlɛs/.

What is another word for less?

Close synonyms include to a lesser extent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of less?

The recorded antonyms are more, more, more.

Is less a common word?

less is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with less?

4 words rhyme with less. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.