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still less
Variant of less
less
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less (les)
adjective
- little
- not so much; smaller in size or amount to drink less milk, take less time
- fewer in less than 25 words
Etymology: ME les < OE læs, adv. læssa, adj. (used as compar. of lytel, little), akin to OFris les < IE *leis- < base *lei-, to diminish, meager, > little
adverb
- little
- to a smaller extent less likely to succeed
noun
a smaller amount
with the deduction of; minus about $5,000, less taxes; thirty less ten is twenty
less Idioms
less and less
to a decreasing degree; decreasingly
much less
or still less to an even smaller degree or extent she won't even talk to him, much less work with him
no less a person than
a person of no lower importance, rank, etc. than
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