Usually means: Not as great or significant.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word Lesser:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lesser: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lesser: Merriam-Webster
  3. lesser: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lesser: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lesser: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lesser: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lesser, lesser: Wordnik
  8. lesser: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lesser, lesser: Wiktionary
  10. lesser: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lesser: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lesser: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lesser: Dictionary.com
  14. lesser: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lesser: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lesser: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lesser: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lesser: Rhymezone
  19. lesser: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lesser: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lesser: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lesser: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lesser: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lesser: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. lesser: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lesser: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. lesser: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. lesser: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lesser: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See little as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lesser)

▸ adjective:  Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.
▸ noun:  a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
small, greater, slighter, higher, equal, worthy, fewer, finer, lower, lessor, more...

Opposite:
greater, superior, higher, major, more

Types:
lesser panda, lesser kudu, lesser flamingo, more...

Phrases:
lesser evil, Lesser Antilles, lesser known, lesser curvature, lesser trochanter, more...

Adjectives:
sol, rick, some, intertrochanteric, young, god, pyloric

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     mauve,     olive,     sage, more...



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Similar:
small, greater, slighter, higher, equal, worthy, fewer, finer, lower, lessor, more...

Opposite:
greater, superior, higher, major, more

Types:
lesser panda, lesser kudu, lesser flamingo, more...

Phrases:
lesser evil, Lesser Antilles, lesser known, lesser curvature, lesser trochanter, lesser sac, lesser omentum, lesser crime, lesser scaup, Lesser Armenia, Lesser tubercle, lesser yellowlegs, lesser circulation, more...

Adjectives:
sol, rick, some, intertrochanteric, young, god, pyloric

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     mauve,     olive,     sage, more...



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