Definition: 1. Not as great in size, amount or importance as something or someone else. 2. Of less size or importance. 3. Smaller in size or amount or value.
Use 'lesser' in a sentence:
1. In no sense mercurial, these great fortunes survived the financial panics that destroyed lesser ones.
2. The purpose is to use lesser manpower make out more production.
3. But lesser companies will generally stay away.
4. They are beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice, lesser cold and greater cold.
5. Only some of the schools which are lesser affected can go back to school.
6. The development of a lesser circulation cardiac function system.
7. Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group.
8. The more obvious potential allies are Ireland, Denmark and, to a lesser degree, the Netherlands.
9. Should it play a greater or lesser role?
10. If using lesser quality, boil water and steep for a longer period of time.
11. New concept of gear with lesser number of teeth for heavy machinery.
12. The world must decide which of the two is the lesser evil.
13. Now, the island is one of only a handful of lesser flamingo breeding colonies in the world.
14. Lesser opposition figures have got off less lightly.
15. Similar considerations apply to Japan, if to a lesser degree.
16. Removed the lesser elements from the movement for us.
17. He was feared by other, lesser, men.
18. Interdisciplinary sentiment analysis is a relatively full new research field; the present research work is lesser.
19. Study on the Economic Benefit of Lesser Black Poplar Pulp Plantation.
20. Compared with stealing money, stealing book was the lesser evil.
21. Clinical analysis of traumatic lesser intracranial hematoma of anterior longitudinal division.
22. Other polls also show Obama ahead by a lesser margin.
23. It exists, however, at lesser degrees, especially at smaller, boutique-y, bougie stores.
24. These experiments are carried out under lesser current density and a little higher decomposition voltage and the corrosion of electrodes isn't very serious.
25. "The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation," said USFWS Director Daniel Ashe.
26. This means lesser carbon dioxide emission into our already ailing atmosphere.
27. The Cascadia Earthquake Zone is big enough to compete with San Andreas (it's been called the most dangerous fault in America), but it's much lesser known than its California cousin.
28. One of the lesser known parts of my job is making introductions.
29. Students played the lesser parts and sang in the chorus.
30. Evaluation of Clinical Results of Lesser Toe Transplantation for Segmental Finger Reconstruction.
31. But it is also true of lesser-known scribblers.
32. The clinical research and application of the internal fixator for lesser trochanter.
33. Certainly this makes moisture and rot lesser problems!
34. No medication works in isolation but is affected to a greater or lesser extent by many other factors.
35. The pollution of the forest has seriously affected plant life and, to a lesser extent , wildlife.
36. The lower the gravity, the lesser the weight and the greater the height of the mountain.
37. A great deal is now known about the kinds of damage produced in the DNA by ultraviolet radiations, to a lesser extent, by ionizing radiations.
38. Factors like strong patrilineality and patrilocality, as well as women's inferior land rights and lesser involvement in trade, made women more dependent on men than was generally the case in Ghana.
39. Our galaxy is so huge that dozens of lesser galaxies scamper about it, like moons orbiting a giant planet.
40. Others were lesser known but of comparable quality.
41. She can deal with complicated numbers in her head, but we lesser mortals need calculators!
42. They pleaded guilty to lesser charges of criminal damage.
43. The sergeant faces a lesser charge of wilful neglect of duty.
44. The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century.
45. This also endangers American interests in other regions, although to a lesser extent.
46. A review panel concluded that there were no exceptional circumstances that would warrant a lesser penalty for him.
47. People voted for him as the lesser of two evils.
48. One suspects that hydro power is still the lesser evil.
49. The law was designed to protect wives, and, to a lesser extent, children.
50. A variety of other crops, including oranges and tomatoes destined to become processed foods, are also picked mechanically, albeit to a slightly lesser extent.
51. He was encouraged to plead guilty to the lesser offence.
52. Most pop music is influenced, to a greater or lesser degree, by the blues.
