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What is the adjective for lessens?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs lessen and less which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

less
  1. (now archaic except with numbers) comparative form of little: more little; smaller. [from 11th c.]
  2. A smaller amount (of); not as much. [from 14th c.]
  3. (proscribed) A smaller number of; fewer. [from 9th c.]
  4. Synonyms:
      5. fewer, declined, diminished, reduced, slighter, not as much, not as great, not so great, not so much, a lesser amount of, a smaller amount of, not as much of, a reduced amount of, rarer, scarcer, inferior, lesser, lower, minor, smaller, secondary, subordinate, ancillary, junior, second-string, subsidiary, subservient, auxiliary, supplementary, marginal, lowly, lower-level, lower-ranking, second-rate, second-fiddle, peripheral, insignificant, accessory, lessened, low, supplemental, second, attendant, extra, under, sub, second-class … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “I have less stress now compared to a year ago.”
      “Let us disregard issues that are of less importance for now.”
lessened
  1. Having been lessened.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. abridged, concise, condensed, brief, summary, shortened, abbreviated, compressed, thumbnail, summarised, summarized, synoptic, contracted, cut, reduced, potted, truncated, curtailed, clipped, abstracted, edited, diminished, trimmed, synopsized, bowdlerised, bowdlerized, pruned, precised, shrunk, shorter, outline, cropped, digest, skeleton, essential, expurgated, decreased, simplified, cut short, bare-bones, cut down, pared down, stripped down, lowered, lower, cheapened, slashed, discounted, marked down, cheaper … more
lessening
  1. present participle of lessen
  2. Synonyms:
      3. diminishing, decreasing, moderating, abating, dwindling, easing, waning, declining, ebbing, lowering, subsiding, weakening, mitigating, receding, falling, shrinking, alleviating, softening, fading, allaying, tempering, assuaging, tapering, dropping, dulling, relenting, remitting, slackening, deadening, attenuating, blunting, palling, mollifying, checking, plummeting, plummetting, palliating, lightening, dampening, relaxing, contracting, flagging, nosediving, quietening, diluting, draining, depressing, cutting, eroding, impairing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Due to the lessening snowfall, the mountains were left with a sparse covering of white.”
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