Less and Slighter

Less

Less adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.

Slighter and less are semantically related. in smaller topic. In some cases you can use "Slighter" instead an adjective "Less", when it comes to topics like not so much.

Nearby Words: lessen, lessening

Slighter

Definitions of Less not found.

Less and slighter are semantically related. You can use "Less" instead an adjective "Slighter".

Both words in one sentence

  • Hide Your Pregnancy Series 2 explains her suddenly slighter frame and fondness for less clothing in general with the elegant solution of having her spending a few months between series backpacking around Asia.
  • They could be 'cruel, yet without malice or ingenuity.' The other type is physically slighter, smarter, with great nervous energy, and 'lusts no less powerful, but more dangerously controlled to a long-sighted policy.' These became churchmen, statesmen, traitors; but sometimes poets and saints.
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