noun
definition
A smaller amount or quantity.
example
I have less to do today than yesterday.
verb
definition
To make less; to lessen.
adverb
definition
To a smaller extent or degree.
example
I like him less each time I see him.
preposition
definition
Minus; not including
example
It should then tax all of that as personal income, less the proportion of the car's annual mileage demonstrably clocked up on company business.
Examples of less in a Sentence
Go find a less annoying way to earn some money.
Now the world has one less fool!
Finding the most effective sources remained less than satisfactory.
But you have less than a month to go.
The Gargoyles were very small of stature, being less than three feet in height.
In less than a month in early spring our lives were totally changed and we loved it.
It might make him feel less threatened.
The rain seems less heavy.
And the more he desired it the less he allowed himself to believe it.
He named a figure that surprised us by being far less than we'd guessed.
I was less critical than my wife on the slow workings of the law.
Those things were never necessary for prosperity and even less so in the Internet age.
All Len wants out of me is information about Allen, and Howard couldn't care less where I am.
His tone was less than convinced.
Well, I don't esteem you the less for it.
If you are in a desert dying of thirst, you value the first glass of water very highly, the second glass a bit less, and the 802nd not at all.
The more closely a man was engaged in the events then taking place in Russia the less did he realize their significance.
He was staying in less splendid quarters a few blocks away.
Or, perhaps they will be less interested.
Soon the carriage turned into another street--a street less carefully guarded.
And we got them all, more or less, by trade and the wealth generated by our work doing some function for which we are trained.
Operating at basically 5 percent efficiency, they are less than half as efficient as solar panels now on the market.
He seldom offered an opinion, much less began a conversation.
Within less than two minutes, Billy saw Mary Green whispering, and she had to take his place.
There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less speak about it, but must only attend to one's own work.
I couldn't care less what Claudette thinks, but let me take the question out of your mind.
Now there is one less hunter to compete with me for the precious little ones.
This is less than one-half of 1 percent of world GNP.
He wrote the words L'Empereur Alexandre, La nation russe and added up their numbers, but the sums were either more or less than 666.
Maybe it would hurt Sarah's feelings less if she simply told the truth.
That was why Pete chose the route - less risk of being robbed.
It was either that or start from scratch but he's not even sure he's a catholic, much less committed to anything.
He spoke even less than normal.
There is a certain limit of time in less than which no amount of heat can melt the snow.
Alex spoke from behind her, his tone less than friendly.
Only that he had repeatedly saved her life - at risk of his own, no less.
Apparently he found the idea of jail less frightening than the huge dog.
I didn't know he was in the area, much less knew Alex was in the hospital.
His eyes wandered over her face, but he gave no indication that he understood her, much less that he wanted to respond.
Surely he's seen you in a lot less than that.
Leave it to a man to avoid expressing how he felt, but it had to make him feel less of a man.
That he'd grown a little more thoughtful and a little less reactive in how he handled adversity impressed Gabe.
Deidre drank more of the brandy, until it stopped burning her throat, and the world grew a little less sharp around the edges.
The new world seemed less scary in daylight.
As sweet as she is, I almost wish I'd given her something a little less lethal.
She hadn't intended not to return to Wynn's, but the idea of keeping him safe, too, made her feel a little less guilty about sneaking out on him.
The death-dealer before him was newer, with less than a few decades in the service of Death.
After rejecting then pining for him for a few days, she wasn't ready for him to be less confused than she was.
Shaking and terrified, Deidre nonetheless held his gaze as she closed the distance between them, until she stood less than a foot away.
Deidre suddenly liked her even less.