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5. Lesser is an adjective. Less is an adverb. Everything else follows. – RegDwigнt. Sep 27, 2012 at 12:49. Given RegDwight's comment, to simplify things for the reader, the answer is 'no'. Anyway, 'lesser' is a bit formal, 'the lighter punishment' is the more likely way to say it. – Mitch.
0. As has been stated already, ‘more’ is the opposite of both ‘fewer’ and ‘less’. But I would like to suggest English take after their cousin Swedish (my native language). In Swedish we have: - less/more = mindre/mer - fewer/more = färre/fler. So my suggestion is English use the word ‘flore’ to mean ‘more objects’.
Jul 28, 2013 · answered Jul 28, 2013 at 14:21. bib. 73k 13 119 226. +1 I would suggest "lean" is appropriate by itself. It is certainly the industrial equivalent of "less is more" (feel free to perform a search for "lean" business books), but might not be as widely understood as the "less is more." – Jack Ryan.
My gut reaction is that "more for less" is going to be better understood, with the missing assumptions being: " (You get) more for less (money)". However, either way it's going to be unclear unless you specify at least one of the assumptions, for example "Less (money) for more" or " (You get) more for less". – Digital Chris. Apr 15, 2014 at ...
Jun 27, 2015 · +1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely supported than that of the other s
Apr 18, 2020 · 1. I am struggeling with deciding between 'less' or 'lower'. For example I have the three sentences: Method A leads, on average, to 50 kWh less/lower surplus energy per day. The results show that the developed methods, on average, lead to 10% less/lower costs. In periods with less/low PV generation, the electrical load is strongly reduced.
If there were more than two, referring to the item having the least of the characteristic, you would use smallest. Less. Less is a determiner or pronoun that means. a smaller amount of; not as much: [as determiner]: the less time spent there, the better [as pronoun]: storage is less of a problem than it used to be. they returned in less than an ...
Oct 7, 2017 · 1. Note that "less than useful" is another idiom, meaning something not seriously detrimental, but at the very least confusing, and distracting from the problem being addressed. – Hot Licks. Oct 7, 2017 at 20:37. Worse than useless in the usual form around here. OK, ngrams agrees with me, but the convergence of less than useless and more than ...
Jun 27, 2019 · Much more (or still more) is used when the grammatical form of the sentence is positive, and much less (or still less) when it is negative. Uncertainty arises when the form is positive but the sense is negative, as with adjectives in un- and words like difficult. In the sentence. It is difficult to establish all the facts, much less to reach a ...
Jun 12, 2011 · 10. According to Merriam-Webster, "so-so" means "neither very good nor very bad." According to The American Heritage Dictionary, "more or less" is an idiom meaning "basically, essentially." I have often heard Japanese and Korean students of English also use "so-so" in terms of their English proficiencies, and based on cultural context (outward ...
