Used in a Sentence

less

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for less.

Editorial note

So car charging loads would be much less stressful than, say, growing population 10% and increasing peak demand.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech3

Quick take

A smaller amount or quantity.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of less gathered in one view.

noun

A smaller amount or quantity.

adverb

To a smaller extent or degree.

adverb

Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for less.

adverb

Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs.

Example sentences

1

So car charging loads would be much less stressful than, say, growing population 10% and increasing peak demand.

2

Most parts of the demo don't need nearly that much memory anyway, and would probably run with 256KB or less.

3

This parasite is thought to make animals (from rats to humans) more docile, less aggressive, and possibly like cats more.

4

From more subjective perspective, I would say that Java specification is written using much simpler language, but that does mean that it is less precise.

5

With less than this amount, one can still put you in a class of individuals, such that you get relevant search results.

6

Merely refining oil into gasoline already has an efficiency of less than 90%.

7

Also it is less attractive to make a centralization because a larger percent of the users will work around the attempts to control them.

8

Now it is less valuable because we have seen that the company has failed to live up to those expectations.

9

The positive effects far outweigh the adverse effects, especially when you can start using things like catalytic converters to make their emissions less harmful.

10

Are the women, on average, more comfortable and the men less?

11

But it's not that there's less valuable content out here.

12

You can't claim San Francisco is doing a good job of taking care of its less fortunate unless you can back that up with some data.

Quote examples

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And yet there are people who dislike this look enough to disable it and work around it, describing it as "blurry", though my experience is that it's less blurry.

2

This is less than 1/7 the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000.[11]" A federal scale project with political, social and economical effects comparable with atomic bomb development.

3

But this could all be worked around (and some parts could be modified to require less memory as well), so all of the audiovisual effects you see in 8088 MPH are possible on an actual stock 1981 machine, with DOS 1.0 and a single-sided 5.25" floppy drive.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use less in a sentence?

So car charging loads would be much less stressful than, say, growing population 10% and increasing peak demand.

What does less mean?

A smaller amount or quantity.

What part of speech is less?

less is commonly used as noun, adverb, verb.