Fewer

Quick meaning: Fewer is a determiner meaning comparative degree of few; a smaller number.

Meaning

comparative degree of few; a smaller number.

Example Sentences

Fewer women wear hats these days.

There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.

Construction of the station and approach line involved considerable engineering work and the demolition of no fewer than 540 houses and a church, […].

This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially.

Word Forms

• fewest

Synonyms for fewer

Depending on context, synonyms include less.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include less, age, below, bit, least, lesser.

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