less
suomi-englanti sanakirjaless englannista suomeksi
vähemmän
alle
Verbi
Substantiivi
less englanniksi
(comparative of)
(ux)
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)
(n-g)
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To a smaller extent or degree.
(en-comparative of); of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser. (defdate)
{{quote-book|en|year=1624|author=John Smith|title=Generall Historie|publisher=Kupperman|year_published=1988|page=141
{{quote-journal|en|year=1711|journal=The Spectator|issue=126
(quote-book)
A smaller amount of; not as much. (defdate)
(quote-journal)
Fewer; a smaller number of. (defdate)
{{quote-text|en|year=1681|author=John Houghton|title=A Collection For the Improvement of Husbandry and Trade|page=263
{{quote-journal|en|author=Thomas M Pryor|journal=New York Times|date=7 Sep 1952
{{quote-text|en|year=1999|author=George R.R. Martin|title=A Clash of Kings|page=555|publisher=Bantam|year_published=2011
{{quote-journal|en|author=Timandra Harkness|journal=The Guardian|date=16 Dec 2003
Minus; not including
To make less; to lessen.
1386-90, (w), ''(w)''
- What he will make lesse, he lesseth.
''c.'' 1650, Patrick Gordon of Ruthven, ''A short Abridgement of Britane's Distemper, from the yeares of God 1639 to 1649'', printed 1844 for the Spalding Club
- Som of the wiser sort, divining upon this vission, attrebute to the pen-knyves the lenth of tym before this should com to pass, and it hath been observed by sindrie that the earles of that hous befor wer the richest in the kingdom, having treasure and store besyde them, but ever since the addittion of this so great a revenue, they have lessed the stock by heavie burdens of debt and ingagment.
1816, "Joseph Wharton" notice, ''Poulson's Advertiser'', quoted in ''Genealogy of the Wharton Family of Philadelphia: 1664 to 1880'', Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1880)
- The protracted term of life, and the lingering illness through which this gentleman had passed, had neither impaired the original vigour of his mind, nor lessed the uncommon warmth of his affections.
Lesser; smaller.
(RQ:Thoreau Walden)
{{quote-text|en|year=1886|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|title=Kidnapped
A smaller amount or quantity.
(RQ:Jonson Bartholomew Fair)
(inflection of)
to pretend (to be)
(infl of)
(nn-fcon) (infl of)
(alt sp)
tired (of something irritating)