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[ adjective ] of less size or importance
Examples "the lesser anteater" "the lesser of two evils" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)Not altogether a successful play , `` Epitaph_for_George_Dillon '' overcomes through sheer vitality and power what in a lesser work might be crippling . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper , and the only lesser immediacy of block_capitals that simulate window lettering , manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture_plane so that it does not `` jump '' . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] smaller in size or amount or value
Examples "the lesser powers of Europe" "the lesser anteater" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 9670
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[ noun ] the smaller in amount or degree esp of two alternatives
Examples : "the lesser of the two evils" Related terms |
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