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Little

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Definitions for Little

noun
a small amount or duration
Examples
  1. he accepted the little they gave him
adjective
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Synonyms
Examples
  1. a little dining room
  2. a little house
  3. a small car
  4. a little (or small) group
adjective
(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree
Synonyms
little(a) slight
Examples
  1. not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
  2. little rain fell in May
  3. gave it little thought
  4. little time is left
  5. we still have little money
  6. a little hope remained
  7. there's slight chance that it will work
  8. there's a slight chance it will work
adjective
(of children and animals) young, immature
Synonyms
Examples
  1. what a big little boy you are
  2. small children
adjective
(informal) small and of little importance
Synonyms
Examples
  1. a fiddling sum of money
  2. a footling gesture
  3. our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
  4. a little (or small) matter
  5. a dispute over niggling details
  6. limited to petty enterprises
  7. piffling efforts
  8. 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
  1. a little voice
  2. a still small voice
adjective
low in stature
Synonyms
Examples
  1. not tall
  2. he was short and stocky
  3. short in stature
  4. a short smokestack
  5. a little man
adjective
lowercase
Synonyms
Examples
  1. little a
  2. small a
  3. 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
  1. a nice little job
  2. bless your little heart
  3. my dear little mother
  4. a sweet little deal
  5. I'm tired of your petty little schemes
  6. filthy little tricks
  7. what a nasty little situation
adverb
not much
Examples
  1. he talked little about his family

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