Lesser

a.	1.	Less; smaller; inferior. God made . . . the lesser light to rule the night. - Gen. i. 15. The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace. - Shak. The larger here, and there the lesser lambs. - Pope. By the same reason may a man, in the state of nature, punish the lesser breaches of the law. - Locke.
adv.	1.	Less.

Adj.	1.	lesser - of less size or importance; "the lesser anteater"; "the lesser of two evils" Antonyms: greater - greater in size or importance or degree; "for the greater good of the community"; "the greater Antilles"
	2.	lesser - smaller in size or amount or value; "the lesser powers of Europe"; "the lesser anteater"

abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, common, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, deflated, demeaning, diminished, dinky, disadvantaged, dissipated, dropped, eroded, fallen, humble, in the shade, inferior, infra dig, insignificant, junior, less, low, lower, lowered, lowly, miniaturized, minor, modest, nether, ordinary, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, second rank, second string, secondary, servile, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, small, small-fry, small-time, smaller, sub, subaltern, subjacent, subject, subordinate, subservient, third rank, third string, under, underprivileged, vulgar, watered-down, weakened, worn

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