less than

phrase

: by no means : not at all

less than honest in his replies

Examples of less than in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Blue Origin says technicians can assemble Northstar in less than a day. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026

Once the books were corrected, Ueno’s capital, the cushion banks must keep to absorb losses, fell to less than half the legal minimum. — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026

The franchise started with the first Godzilla in 1954, a horror movie that used the monster as a metaphor for the bombs that had hit Japan less than a decade earlier. — James Grebey, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026

While the plane was near Florida’s Gulf Coast, less than 20 minutes before the crash, an air traffic controller warned that the turn they’d requested toward the Bahamas could take them into a thunderstorm. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1929, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for less than

• afghan
• bedpan
• began
• caveman
• chapin
• cyan
• deadpan
• dextran
• divan
• doorman
• fishman
• flagman