less vs nonpositive

less

noun
  • A smaller amount or quantity. 

conj
  • unless 

det
  • Fewer; a smaller number of. 

  • A smaller amount of; not as much. 

adv
  • To a smaller extent or degree. 

  • Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs. 

prep
  • Minus; not including 

nonpositive

noun
  • Any value that is not positive. 

adj
  • Not positive; either zero or negative. 

  • Not positive. 

How often have the words less and nonpositive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )