Lesser
Lesser adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Subsequent and lesser are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Subsequent" instead the word "Lesser" as an adjective or an adverb.
Subsequent
Subsequent adjective - Being, occurring, or carried out at a time after something else.
Lesser and subsequent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lesser" instead the word "Subsequent" as an adjective or an adverb.
Nearby Words: subsequently, subsequence
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- subject and lesser
- subject and subsequent
- unimportant and lesser
- unimportant and subsequent
- lower and lesser
- lower and subsequent
- dependent and lesser
- dependent and subsequent
- subordinate and lesser
- subordinate and subsequent
- second and lesser
- second and subsequent
- subsidiary and lesser
- subsidiary and subsequent
Both words in one sentence
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And of course, UnDivided has his unwind and subsequent "resurrection." Lev to a lesser extent.
Source: Literature / Unwind -
Every single subsequent take had Tommy say the line in a Creepy Monotone, which led to them using the original laughing take as it was the lesser of two evils.
Source: Literature / The Disaster Artist - The iPhone in particular, with its heavily developed "App Store", and its subsequent tablet-lovechild the iPad, has shown itself to be an actual gaming platform, as to a lesser extent (due in part to widely varying hardware) has Google's Android.
Source: Mobile Phone Game
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