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Piddling vs Lesser - What's the difference?

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Piddling is a related term of lesser.


As adjectives the difference between piddling and lesser

is that piddling is insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless while lesser is (little).

As a verb piddling

is .

As a noun lesser is

a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.

piddling

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
    • After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
    The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. — Milton.

    Verb

    (head)

    • lesser

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (little)
  • of two things, the smaller in size, value, importance etc.

    • Derived terms

    * lesser anteater * Lesser Antilles * lesser celandine * lesser extent * lesser evil, lesser of two evils * lesser flamingo * lesser included offense * lesser nothura * lesser spotted woodpecker

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.
    • the lesser of two evils
    The greater sand hills increasingly do not migrate, but almost all lessers do.

    Related terms

    * less * the lesser of two evils * fewer

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