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lesser

adjectiveadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈlɛsə//
  • United States//ˈlɛsɚ//

Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.

    lesser panda

    lesser yellowlegs

Etymology

From less + -er.

adjective

  1. 1

    that which is of lesser size, quality, degree, or significance; of lower status, importance, or rank

    The larger Sand Hill Cranes increasingly do not migrate, but almost all lesser ones do.

    Between the two men, he was clearly the lesser one.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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