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n. smaller in amount or degree: "the less I see of you the better"; "people have lost their heads for less"

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adv. comparative of little; "she walks less than she should"; "he works less these days"

adv. used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "less interesting"; "less expensive"; "less quickly"

adj. (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"

lower, less

adj. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"

nether

adj. lower; "gnawed his nether lip"

least, lowest, smallest

adj. lowest in rank or importance; "last prize"; "in last place"

bad

adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"

base

adj. debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

cardboard, flimsy

adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"

cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

coarse, common

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

coarsened

adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill

commercial, commercial-grade

adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"

deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

low-grade

adj. of inferior quality

mediocre

adj. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"

ropey, ropy

adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"

scrawny, scrubby, stunted

adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

second-class

adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"

third-rate

adj. of lesser quality than second-rate

utility(a), utility-grade

adj. used of beef; usable but inferior

humble, low, lowly, modest, small

adj. low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"

low-level

adj. at a low level in rank or importance; "a low-level job"; "low-level discussions"

middle-level

adj. intermediate in rank or position; "middle-level management"

outclassed

adj. decisively surpassed by something else so as to appear to be of a lower class

more

adv. comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent; "he works more now"; "they eat more than they should"

more, to a greater extent

adv. used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "more interesting"; "more beautiful"; "more quickly"

superior

adj. of or characteristic of high rank or importance; "a superior ruler"

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