lesser

  • (noun): A thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.
  • (adjective): Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.
  • (adjective): Small in size.
  • (adjective): Insignificant, trivial.
  • (adjective): Very young.
  • (adjective): (of a sibling) Younger.
  • (adjective): (also Little) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
  • (adjective): Small in amount or number, having few members.
  • (adjective): Short in duration; brief.
  • (adjective): Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
  • The greater sand hills increasingly do not migrate, but almost all lessers do.
  • This is a little table.
  • It's of little importance.
  • Did he tell you any embarrassing stories about when she was little?
  • This is my little sister.