Junior and Less

Junior

Junior adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Usage example: junior advisers to the governor

Less and junior are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Less" instead an adjective "Junior".

Less

Less adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Usage example: the restaurant's chowder has been declared the state's best by no less a person than the governor himself

Junior and less are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Junior" instead an adjective "Less".

Nearby Words: lessen, lessening

Both words in one sentence

  • Until midway through junior year, he more or less never turned of his emotional repression and spent nearly every spare minute of his time training.
  • Comic Strip / Popeye Junior, from Popeye & Son metabolizes spinach no less than his famous father, although the boy hates the taste of it.
  • Turns out that people too young for the real H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks are sent to a junior (but no less torturous) version called Heck.
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