noun
a small amount or duration
Examples
- he accepted the little they gave him
adjective
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Synonyms
Examples
- a little dining room
- a little house
- a small car
- a little (or small) group
adjective
(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree
Synonyms
Examples
- not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
- little rain fell in May
- gave it little thought
- little time is left
- we still have little money
- a little hope remained
- there's slight chance that it will work
- there's a slight chance it will work
adjective
(of children and animals) young, immature
Synonyms
Examples
- what a big little boy you are
- small children
adjective
(informal) small and of little importance
Synonyms
Examples
- a fiddling sum of money
- a footling gesture
- our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
- a little (or small) matter
- a dispute over niggling details
- limited to petty enterprises
- piffling efforts
- giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
adjective
(of a voice) faint
Synonyms
Examples
- a little voice
- a still small voice
adjective
low in stature
Synonyms
Examples
- not tall
- he was short and stocky
- short in stature
- a short smokestack
- a little man
adjective
lowercase
Synonyms
Examples
- little a
- small a
- e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
adjective
small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
Examples
- a nice little job
- bless your little heart
- my dear little mother
- a sweet little deal
- I'm tired of your petty little schemes
- filthy little tricks
- what a nasty little situation
adverb
not much
Examples
- he talked little about his family