Usually means: Smaller in amount, degree, intensity.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word less:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. less: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. -less, less: Merriam-Webster
  3. -less, less: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. less: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -less, less: Collins English Dictionary
  6. less: Vocabulary.com
  7. Les's, Less, -less, less: Wordnik
  8. -less, less: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. -less: Wiktionary
  10. -less, less: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. -less, less: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. less: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Less, -less, less, less: Dictionary.com
  14. -less, less: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. less: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LESS (stylesheet language), LESS, Less (Unix), Less (band), Less (novel), Less (stylesheet language), Less, -less: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Less, -less: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. less: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. less: Rhymezone
  20. less: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. less: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. -less, less: MyWord.info
  23. LESS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. less: FreeDictionary.org
  25. less: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. less: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. less: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. less: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. less: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -less, less: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. less: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LESS: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. less: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. less: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Less: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. less: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. less: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See little as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs.
adverb:  To a smaller extent or degree.
verb:  (archaic) To make less; to lessen.
adjective:  (archaic) Lesser; smaller.
noun:  A smaller amount or quantity.

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