less so
Adjective
Meaning
less so (not comparable)
Contextual comparative. Modifies another adjective (to which the "so" is a direct anaphoric reference), indicating a lesser degree of the quality in question.
Some are rich, others less so.
Examples
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
The irreligious are more religious than they themselves know, and the religious are less so than they think.