lesser
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 6
/ˈlɛsɚ/
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/ˈlɛsɚ/ · /ˈlɛsə/
Definition of lesser
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- (comparative, form-of)comparative form of little: more little
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adj
- (comparative, form-of)comparative form of little: more little
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(not-comparable)Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.
“lesser panda”
“lesser yellowlegs”
noun
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a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.
“The greater sand hills increasingly do not migrate, but almost all lessers do.”
name
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A surname.
“Into them Lesser inserts three intentionally similar heroines, annoying American expats in Cambridge, England,[ ]whose Anglophilia leads to a quite unwarranted amount of sightseeing.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From less + -er.
Anagrams of lesser
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