The phrase "a greater degree" denotes an increase or advancement in something, but its antonyms refer to the opposite. One antonym for "a greater degree" is "a lesser degree," which indicates a reduction or decrease. Another antonym is "no degree," which means no amount or level of the thing in question. "Minimal degree" is another opposite term, suggesting the smallest or lowest amount or level of something. Likewise, "negligible degree" implies that the matter is trivial, insignificant or inconsequential. In summary, the different antonyms for "a greater degree" are expressions that imply an opposite or reduced level of significance.

What are the antonyms for A greater degree?

• adv.

  • better
  • worse
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Famous quotes with A greater degree

• Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

  Walter Lang
• When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

  David Sanborn
• I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide

  John Ryman
• According to one mode... nature is thus denominated, viz. the first subject matter to every thing which contains in itself the principle of motion and mutation. But after another mode it is denominated form, which subsists according to definition: for as art is called that which subsists according to art, and that which is artificial; so likewise nature is both called that which is according to nature, and that which is natural. ...that which is composed from these is not nature, but consists from nature; as, for instance, man. And this is nature in a greater degree than matter: for every thing is then said to be, when it is form in energy... , rather than when it is incapacity.

  Aristotle
• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  John Lancaster Spalding

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