Usually means: Smaller in amount, degree, intensity.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. -less, less: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -less, less: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. less: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -less, less: Collins English Dictionary
  5. less: Vocabulary.com
  6. Les's, Less, -less, less: Wordnik
  7. -less, less: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -less: Wiktionary
  9. -less, less: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -less, less: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. less: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Less, -less, less, less: Dictionary.com
  13. -less, less: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. less: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. LESS (stylesheet language), LESS, Less (Unix), Less (band), Less (novel), Less (stylesheet language), Less, -less: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Less, -less: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. less: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. less: Rhymezone
  19. less: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. less: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. -less, less: MyWord.info
  22. LESS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. less: Free Dictionary
  24. less: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. less: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. less: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. less: Wiktionary

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

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

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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