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| Main Entry: | less |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smaller, inferior |
| Synonyms: | beneath, deficient, depressed, lacking, lesser, limited, lower, minor, minus, negative, reduced, secondary, shorter, subordinate, unsubstantial, without, declined, diminished, excepting, fewer, not as great, shortened, slighter, subtracting |
| Notes: | fewer means a smaller number of individual things and less means a small quantity of something. A traditional rule of English usage holds that less should be used only of uncountable things, that is, things that can be measured but not counted as discrete units. Thus "less electricity," "less than a quart, " "less doubt." Fewer, on the other hand, should be used only of things that can be counted: "fewer people," "fewer cars." In actual usage, fewer almost always adheres to the traditional rule; the problem is that less is often used with countable things. generally, less applies to quantity while fewer applies to number; the traditional rule says that you should use fewer for things that can be counted (fewer than four players) but less with mass terms for things of measurable extent (less paper, less than a gallon of paint) |
| Antonyms: | more, superior, bigger |
| Main Entry: | less |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | little |
| Synonyms: | barely, meagerly, in a lower degree, to a smaller extent |
| Antonyms: | more |
| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | infrequently, not much |
| Synonyms: | barely, hardly, rarely, scarcely, seldom, somewhat, a little, hardly ever, not many, not often, not quite, only just |
| Antonyms: | frequently, more, much |
| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small in size, amount |
| Synonyms: | babyish, bantam, brief, cramped, diminutive, dinky, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hasty, immature, imperceptible, infant, infinitesimal, insufficient, junior, light, limited, meager, microscopic, miniature, minute, peanut*, petite, short, short-lived, skimpy, slight, snub, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, toy, undersized, undeveloped, wee, wizened, young, Lilliputian, hardly any, inappreciable, inconsiderable, mini, not big, not large, scant, shrimpy, shriveled, truncated |
| Antonyms: | big, enormous, giant, great, huge, immense, large, massive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not important |
| Synonyms: | casual, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, paltry, petty, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, inconsiderable, shoestring* |
| Antonyms: | great, important, magnificent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded |
| Synonyms: | base, bigoted, cheap, contemptible, illiberal, ineffectual, limited, mean, narrow, paltry, petty, provincial, self-centered, selfish, set, small, small-minded, vulgar, wicked, hidebound |
| Antonyms: | magnanimous, open, open-minded |
| Main Entry: | few |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardly any |
| Synonyms: | exiguous, imperceptible, inconsequential, infrequent, insufficient, lean, less, meager, middling, minor, minority, minute, negligible, occasional, paltry, petty, piddling, rare, scanty, scarce, scattered, scattering, seldom, short, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, some, sparse, sporadic, stingy, thin, trifling, uncommon, few and far between, inconsiderable, not many, not too many, scant, scarcely any, semioccasional, straggling, unfrequent, widely spaced |
| Antonyms: | many, much |
| Main Entry: | wanting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking, inadequate |
| Synonyms: | absent, away, bankrupt, bereft, cut off, defective, deficient, destitute, devoid, disappointing, empty, failing, faulty, gone, half-baked*, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, less, minus, missing, needed, omitted, patchy, poor, scanty, scarce, short, shy, sketchy, substandard, unsound, burned out, cooked, deprived, in default, not good enough, not up to par, out of gas, scant, too little too late, unfulfilled |
| Antonyms: | adequate, perfect, satisfactory, sufficient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minus |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diminished |
| Synonyms: | deficient, less, negative, smaller, short of, subtracting |
| Main Entry: | shorter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smaller |
| Synonyms: | less, lower, reduced, briefer, curtailed, diminished, lessened, more concise |
| Antonyms: | higher, longer, taller |
| Main Entry: | smaller |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tinier |
| Synonyms: | less, lesser, lower, minor, petite, shorter |
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | less in rank, importance |
| Synonyms: | bottom, junior, less, lesser, lower, menial, minor, minus, nether, peon, second, secondary, smaller, subjacent, subordinate, subsidiary, under, underneath, back seat, bottom-rung, entry-level, second-banana, second-fiddle, second-string |
| Antonyms: | best, better, extraordinary, first-class, first-rate, foremost, superior |
| Main Entry: | baby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miniature |
| Synonyms: | babyish, diminutive, dwarf, little, midget, minute, petite, small, tiny, wee, youthful, mini |
| Antonyms: | big, giant, large |
| Main Entry: | bantam |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small |
| Synonyms: | diminutive, little, petite, tiny |
| Antonyms: | big, huge, large |
| Main Entry: | brief |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short, compressed |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, hasty, laconic, limited, little, pithy, sharp, short and sweet*, skimpy, small, snippy, succinct, surly, terse, boiled down, breviloquent, compendiary, to the point |
| Antonyms: | lengthy, long |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brief |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short in time |
| Synonyms: | concise, ephemeral, fast, fleeting, hasty, instantaneous, little, meteoric, momentary, passing, quick, short-lived, swift, temporary, transient, transitory, curtailed, short-term |
| Antonyms: | enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, long-lived |
| Main Entry: | cramped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | congested, overcrowded |
| Synonyms: | awkward, close, confined, crowded, illegible, indecipherable, irregular, little, minute, narrow, packed, restricted, small, tight, tiny, uncomfortable, circumscribed, closed in, crabbed, hemmed in, incommodious, jammed in, pent, squeezed, tucked up, two-by-four |
| Antonyms: | free, open, uninhibited, unobstructed, uncongested, uncramped, uncrowded |
| Main Entry: | diminutive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiny, petite |
| Synonyms: | bantam, button*, little, midget, miniature, minute, pocket, small, teeny*, wee*, Lilliputian, bitsy, bitty, mini, peewee*, pint-sized, pocket-sized, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, undersize, weeny |
| Antonyms: | big, huge, large, tall |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | easy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not difficult |
| Synonyms: | accessible, apparent, basic, child's play, cinch, clear, easily done, effortless, elementary, evident, facile, inconsiderable, light, little, manageable, manifest, mere, no bother, no problem, no sweat, no trouble, not burdensome, nothing to it*, obvious, painless, paltry, picnic*, piece of cake*, plain, plain sailing*, pushover*, royal, simple, simple as ABC, slight, smooth, snap, straightforward, uncomplicated, undemanding, uninvolved, untroublesome, wieldy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complex, complicated, demanding, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, laborious, uneasy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elfin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous; small |
| Synonyms: | delicate, devilish, disobedient, elfish, frolicsome, impish, little, minute, naughty, petite, playful, puckish, puny, slight, sprightly, tiny, misbehaving, prankish, rascally |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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