" -less "

[Adjective]  | "less" | \ ˈles \

1: constituting a more limited number or amount

2: of lower rank, degree, or importance

3: of reduced size, extent, or degree

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English, partly from Old English lǣs, adverb & noun; partly from lǣssa, adjective; akin to Old Frisian lēs less;

[Adjective]  | "lit*tle" | \ ˈli-tᵊl \

1: not big: such as

2: small in size or extent : tiny

3: young

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English littel, from Old English lȳtel; akin to Old High German luzzil little;

[Adverb]  | "less" 

1: to a lesser extent or degree

Origin: before 12th century ;

 See: ;

[Adverb]  | "little" 

1: in only a small quantity or degree : slightly

2: not at all

3: rarely, infrequently

Origin: before 12th century ;

 See: {little:1 };

[Noun]  | "less" 

1: a smaller portion or quantity

2: something of less importance

Origin: before 12th century ;

 See: ;

[Noun]  | "hull" | \ ˈhəl \

1: the outer covering of a fruit or seed

2: the persistent calyx or involucre that subtends some fruits (such as a strawberry)

3: the frame or body of a ship or boat exclusive of masts, yards, sails, and rigging

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English holle, hulle, going back to Old English hulu, apparently going back to a by-form (without umlaut) of Germanic *huljō (whence Old High German hulla "outer garment," Middle High German hülle), nominal derivative from *hulj-a- "to cover" (whence Old Saxon bihullean "to veil, conceal," Old High German hullan "to cover," Old Norse hylja "to hide, cover," Gothic huljan "to cover, veil"), going back to Indo-European *ḱl̥-i̯e-, present stem formed from the verbal base *ḱel- "cover, conceal" {mat|conceal|};

  * Note : The sense "frame or body of a ship," first attested with certainty ca. 1424-25 in a Latin document, is apparently a figurative use of the sense "husk, pod"; cf. Bertil Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms I. The Ship's Hull (Uppsala, 1951), pp. 194-95.;

[Noun]  | "James" | \ ˈjāmz \

1: an apostle, son of Zebedee, and brother of the apostle John according to the Gospel accounts

2: an apostle and son of Alphaeus according to the Gospel accounts —called also James the Less

3: a brother of Jesus traditionally held to be the author of the New Testament Epistle of James

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *Jacomus, alteration of Late Latin Jacobus, Jacob Jacob;

[Preposition]  | "less" 

1: diminished by : minus

Origin: 1623 ;

 See: ;

[Adjective suffix]  | "-less" 

1: destitute of : not having

2: unable to be acted on or to act (in a specified way)

Origin: 

 Middle English -les, -lesse, from Old English -lēas, from lēas devoid, false; akin to Old High German lōs loose, Old English losian to get lost {mat|lose|};

[Phrase]  | "care less" 

1: not to care —used positively and negatively with the same meaning

[Adjective]  | "less" 

[Adjective]  | "little" 

[Preposition]  | "less" 

[Adverb]  | "little" 

[Adverb]  | "more or less" 

[Verb]  | "care" 

[Verb]  | "care (for)" 

[Noun]  | "carer" 

[Noun]  | "hull" 

[Conjunction]  | "much less"