little, adj.
freq. cnt. 257
freq. cnt. 257
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 376 freq. cnt.: 213 freq. cnt.: 163
little small
sample sentences
"a little dining room""a little house"
"a small car"
"a little (or small) group"
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tiny, diminutive, petite, bantam, lilliputian, midget, flyspeck
wee, teensy, bitty, bittie, teentsy, teeny, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy
dinky, insignificant
dwarfish
elfin, elflike
gnomish
half-size
minute, infinitesimal
lesser
microscopic, microscopical
micro
miniature
minuscule, miniscule
olive-sized
pocket-size, pocket-sized, pocketable
puny, runty, shrimpy
slender, slim
smaller, littler
smallish
small-scale
undersize, undersized
(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
<adj.all> (a) freq. cnt.: 71 freq. cnt.: 71
little slight
sample sentences
"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"
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antonym
(of children and animals) young, immature
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 8
little small
sample sentences
"what a big little boy you are""small children"
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(informal) small and of little importance
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 4
fiddling footling lilliputian little niggling petty picayune piddling piffling trivial
sample sentences
"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"
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(of a voice) faint
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1
little small
sample sentences
"a little voice""a still small voice"
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small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
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little
sample sentences
"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"
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lowercase
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
little minuscule small
sample sentences
"little a""small a"
"e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
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low in stature; not tall
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7
little short
sample sentences
"he was short and stocky""short in stature"
"a short smokestack"
"a little man"
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