little

• "he talked little about his family"

• "he accepted the little they gave him"

• "a little dining room"
• "a little house"
• "a small car"
• "a little (or small) group"

Synonyms

• smallon a small scale; the slender part of the back ; a garment size for a small person ; limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; relatively moderate, limited, or small; (of children and animals) young, immature; slight or limited; low or inferior in station or quality; lowercase; (of a voice) faint; have fine or very small constituent particles; not large but sufficient in size or amount; made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

• "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"

Synonyms

• little(a)
• slightpay no attention to, disrespect; a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) ; (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; lacking substance or significance; being of delicate or slender build

• "what a big little boy you are"
• "small children"

Synonyms

• smallon a small scale; the slender part of the back ; a garment size for a small person ; limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; relatively moderate, limited, or small; (of children and animals) young, immature; slight or limited; low or inferior in station or quality; lowercase; (of a voice) faint; have fine or very small constituent particles; not large but sufficient in size or amount; made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

• "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"

Synonyms

• fiddling(informal) small and of little importance
• footling(informal) small and of little importance
• lilliputiana very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) ; a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift ; tiny; very small; (informal) small and of little importance
• niggling(informal) small and of little importance
• piddling(informal) small and of little importance
• piffling(informal) small and of little importance
• pettylarceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) ; inferior in rank or status; (informal) small and of little importance; contemptibly narrow in outlook
• picayune(informal) small and of little importance
• trivial(informal) small and of little importance; of little substance or significance; concerned with trivialities

• "a little voice"
• "a still small voice"

Synonyms

• smallon a small scale; the slender part of the back ; a garment size for a small person ; limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; relatively moderate, limited, or small; (of children and animals) young, immature; slight or limited; low or inferior in station or quality; lowercase; (of a voice) faint; have fine or very small constituent particles; not large but sufficient in size or amount; made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

• "not tall"
• "he was short and stocky"
• "short in stature"
• "a short smokestack"
• "a little man"

Synonyms

• shortcheat someone by not returning him enough money ; create a short circuit in ; the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed ; accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference ; the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base ; quickly and without warning; without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; clean across; at some point or distance before a goal is reached; so as to interrupt; at a disadvantage; in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; primarily temporal sense; (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; low in stature; of insufficient quantity to meet a need; (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; lacking foresight or scope; tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; marked by rude or peremptory shortness

• "little a"
• "small a"
• "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

Synonyms

• minusculethe characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case ; a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts ; of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; lowercase; extremely small
• smallon a small scale; the slender part of the back ; a garment size for a small person ; limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; relatively moderate, limited, or small; (of children and animals) young, immature; slight or limited; low or inferior in station or quality; lowercase; (of a voice) faint; have fine or very small constituent particles; not large but sufficient in size or amount; made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

• "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"