Less
21-less — 1. This suffix dates back to Old English and is used to form adjectives from nouns (doubtless, endless, powerless). It has also been added to verbs with the meaning ‘not affected by the action of the verb’, although few of this type survive… …
22less of — british spoken phrase used for telling someone to stop doing something We’ll have less of that rudeness, please. Thesaurus: ways of telling someone to stop doing somethingsynonym to kill a person or animalsynonym Main entry …
23-less — ( l[e^]s) suff. [AS. le[ a]s loose, false; akin to OS. l[=o]s loose, false, D. los loose, loos false, sly, G. los loose, Icel. lauss loose, vacant, Goth. laus empty, vain, and also to E. loose, lose. [root]127. See {Lose}, and cf. {Loose},… …
24Less — (l[e^]s), conj. Unless. [Obs.] B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] …
25-less — suffix meaning lacking, cannot be, does not, from O.E. leas, from leas free (from), devoid (of), false, feigned, from P.Gmc. *lausaz (Cf. Du. loos, Ger. los less, O.N. lauss loose, free, vacant, dissolute, M.Du. los, Ger. los loose, free, Goth.… …
26less — [adj] smaller, inferior beneath, declined, deficient, depressed, diminished, excepting, fewer, lacking, lesser, limited, lower, minor, minus, negative, not as great, reduced, secondary, shortened, shorter, slighter, subordinate, subtracting,… …
27less — ► DETERMINER & PRONOUN 1) a smaller amount of; not as much. 2) fewer in number. ► ADVERB ▪ to a smaller extent; not so much. ► PREPOSITION ▪ minus. USAGE On the difference in use between less and …
28Less. — Less., bei Pflanzennamen Abkürzung: 1) für Christian Friedrich Lessing, geb. 10. Aug. 1809 in Polnisch Wartenberg, bereiste den Ural und Sibirien, starb 1862 zu Krassnojarsk in Sibirien; schrieb: »Synopsis generum Compositarum« (1832); – 2) bei… …
29less — index save, subaltern Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
30-less — [ləs] suffix [in adjectives] [: Old English; Origin: leas, from leas lacking, false ] 1.) without something ▪ I felt powerless. ▪ a childless couple ▪ tasteless food 2.) not doing or using something ▪ You re too careless. ▪ …
