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| 1. | [ adjective ] limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | |
| Synonyms: | small | |
| Examples: | "a little dining room" "a little house" "a small car" "a little (or small) group" a small voice" |
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| Related terms: | large large smaller bantam bantam infinitesimal least bittie bitty slender smallish small-scale elfin miniature half-size undersize half-size lesser dwarf pocket-size micro fine minuscule pocket-size puny gnomish dinky size | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with "a) at least some | |
| Examples: | "little rain fell in May" "gave it little thought" "little hope remained" "little time is left" "a little time is left" |
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| Related terms: | much small slight less | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] of short duration or distance | |
| Synonyms: | brief | |
| Examples: | "a brief stay in the country" "in a little while" "it's a little way away" |
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| Related terms: | short | |
| 4. | [ adverb ] not much | |
| Examples: | "he talked little about his family" |
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| 5. | [ noun ] a small amount or duration | |
| Examples: | "he accepted the little they gave him" |
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| Related terms: | small_indefinite_quantity | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | |
| Synonyms: | small insignificant peanut | |
| Examples: | "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat" "peanut politicians" |
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| Related terms: | minor | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] not fully grown | |
| Synonyms: | small | |
| Examples: | "what a big little boy you are" "small children" |
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| Related terms: | young | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] (informal terms) small and of little importance | |
| Synonyms: | trivial footling niggling piddling piffling petty picayune lilliputian fiddling | |
| Examples: | "a fiddling sum of money" "a footling gesture" "our worries are lilliputian" "a little (or small) matter" "Mickey Mouse regulations" "niggling details" petty enterprises" "piffling efforts" |
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| Related terms: | unimportant | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] (informal terms) small and of little importance | |
| Synonyms: | trivial footling mickey_mouse niggling petty picayune piddling piffling lilliputian fiddling | |
| 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" "Mickey Mouse regulations" "a dispute over ni |
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| Related terms: | colloquialism unimportant | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] (of a voice) faint | |
| Synonyms: | small | |
| Examples: | "a little voice" "a still small voice" |
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| Related terms: | soft | |
| 11. | [ adjective ] contemptibly narrow in outlook | |
| Synonyms: | small small-minded petty | |
| Examples: | "petty little comments" "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" |
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| Related terms: | narrow-minded | |
| 12. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 226 | |
| 13. | [ adjective ] lowercase | |
| Synonyms: | small minuscule | |
| Examples: | "little a" "small a" "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" |
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| Related terms: | lowercase | |
| 14. | [ adjective ] used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | |
| Synonyms: | tight mingy small miserly mean | |
| Examples: | "a mean person" "he left a miserly tip" |
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| Related terms: | stingy | |
| 15. | [ adjective ] small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on 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" |
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| Related terms: | emotional | |
| 16. | [ adjective ] younger brother or sister | |
| Synonyms: | younger | |
| Examples: | "little brother" |
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| Related terms: | big | |
| Similar spelling: |
Litle Liddle Littell Lyttle |
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