little

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• (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"; "a small voice"
• (n) a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"
• (r) not much; "he talked little about his family"
• (s) of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it''s a little way away"
• (s) not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
• (s) (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over nig
• (s) (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
• (s) lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings''s poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
• (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

little Synonyms

• brief
• fiddling
• footling
• lilliputian
• little
• Mickey Mouse
• minuscule
• niggling
• petty
• picayune
• piddling
• piffling
• small
• trivial