little

  • (r) not much
    • he talked little about his family
  • (a) limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
    • a little dining room
    • a little house
    • a small car
    • a little (or small) group
    small,
  • (a) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; 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
    slight,
  • (s) (of children and animals) young, immature
    • what a big little boy you are
    • small children
    small,
  • (s) (informal) small and of little importance
    • 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
    fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial, petty, lilliputian,
  • (s) (of a voice) faint
    • a little voice
    • a still small voice
    small,
  • (a) low in stature; not tall
    • he was short and stocky
    • short in stature
    • a short smokestack
    • a little man
    short,
  • (s) lowercase
    • little a
    • small a
    • e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
    minuscule, small,
  • (s) small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
    • 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

Nouns

  • (n) a small amount or duration
    • he accepted the little they gave him

Synonyms

small slight fiddling footling niggling picayune piddling piffling trivial petty lilliputian short minuscule

Antonyms

big large much tall

See also

less low

Words of close approximity

litter Littre
little auk little barley Little Bear Little Bighorn Little Bighorn River little black ant little blue heron little brother little brown bat little brown myotis little by little little chief hare little clubmoss little club moss Little Corporal little dictionary Little Dipper Little Dog little ebony spleenwort little egret little finger Little Giant little girl little golden zinnia little grebe little hand little-head snakeweed Little Horn Little Joe Little John little-known little-leaf fig little league little leaguer little-league team Little Lord Fauntleroy Little Missouri Little Missouri River Little Mo Connolly littleneck littleneck clam littleness Little Office little owl Little Phoebe little potato littler Little Red Riding Hood Little Rhody Little Rock Little Sioux River little sister little skate little slam Little Sparrow little spotted skunk little terror little theater little theatre little toe Little Wabash Little Wabash River