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less-known

less-known is the comparative form of little-known.

Meaning of little-known

Adjective

little-known (comparative less-known or lesser-known or littler-known, superlative least-known or littlest-known)

  1. Not known about by many people.
    • The Misses Marie Deutsch and Ann Solomon are vacationing in that littlest-known part of the world—New York—and believing in the slogan of “See America First,” they started their vacation by visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art....1927 September 15, “Vacations: Some Folks Are Away Now and Some Have Just Come Back”, in Albert Deane, editor, Pep-O-Grams, volume 3, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Paramount-Pep Club, page seven, column...
    Antonyms:
    well-known

Synonyms of less-known

Questions about less-known

What is less-known the comparative form of?
Less-known is the comparative form of little-known.

Words near less-known in the dictionary

  1. less than threeing
  2. less than threes
  3. less than truckload
  4. less thans
  5. less'n
  6. less-known
  7. less-lethal
  8. less-than-stellar
  9. Lessard
  10. Lessards
  11. lesse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: less-known (page history and authors); little-known (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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