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[ adverb ] comparing quantity or quality
Synonyms Examples "she was less than half her weight after the crash diet" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)To anyone who remembers Newport at its less_than maximum violence , this view of what the boys and girls do in the springtime before they wing north for the Jazz_Festival ought to prove entertaining . (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)She may not have been exact on this number , but others here feel quite certain that the percentage would be less_than ten . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)If death receives more_than its share of attention from the theologian and if sin receives less_than its share , the gift of the life_eternal through Christ begins to look_like the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal , i.e. , created , existence . (Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)A large picnic_area or camping development is most efficient in shape as a square or rectangle several hundred feet in_width in_preference_to a long narrow area less_than one_hundred feet wide . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Probably less_than one_percent of our previsions escape final obliteration before we wake . Related terms |
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