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little > 10 senses
ADJECTIVE	1	little, small	Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
	2	little	(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree
	3	little, brief	Of short duration or distance
	4	little, small	(of children and animals) young, immature
	5	little, fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial	(informal) small and of little importance
	6	little, small	(of a voice) faint
	7	little, minuscule, small	Lowercase
	8	little	Small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
ADVERB	1	little	Not much
NOUN	1	little	A small amount or duration

little > pronunciation
Sounds	lih'tahl
Rhymes	abdominal, Abel, able, and 2061 more rhymes in ahl...

little > adjective 1
Meaning	Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
Examples	"a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a little (or small) group"
Synonyms	small
Contrary	large, big
Similar	bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck; bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy; dinky; dwarfish; elfin, elflike; gnomish; half-size; infinitesimal, minute, microscopic; lesser; micro; miniature; minuscule, miniscule; olive-sized; pocket-size, pocket-sized, pocketable; puny, runty, shrimpy; slender, slim; smaller, littler; smallish; small-scale; undersize, undersized
See also	macroscopic, macroscopical; microscopic, microscopical; short
Attribute of	size
Nouns	littleness

little > adjective 2
Meaning	(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"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"
Contrary	much
Similar	slight; small
See also	less

little > adjective 3
Meaning	Of short duration or distance.
Examples	"in a little while"; "it's a little way away"
Synonyms	brief
Similar to	short

little > adjective 4
Meaning	(of children and animals) young, immature.
Examples	"what a big little boy you are"
Synonyms	small
Similar to	young, immature

little > adjective 5
Meaning	(informal) small and of little importance.
Examples	"a little (or small) matter"
Synonyms	fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
Similar to	unimportant
Usage	colloquialism
Nouns	littleness

little > adjective 6
Meaning	(of a voice) faint.
Examples	"a little voice"
Synonyms	small
Similar to	soft
Nouns	littleness

little > adjective 7
Meaning	Lowercase.
Examples	"little a"
Synonyms	minuscule, small
Similar to	lowercase

little > adjective 8
Meaning	Small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the 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"; "what a nasty little situation"
Similar to	emotional

little > noun, quantity
Meaning	A small amount or duration.
Examples	"he accepted the little they gave him"
Broader	small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount

little > adverb
Meaning	Not much.
Examples	"he talked little about his family"

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