little

Meanings

Plural: littles

Noun

• a small amount or duration
  • "he accepted the little they gave him"
• A small amount.
• A child, particularly an infant.
• An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
• A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
• An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
• The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
• An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
• One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
• Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).

Adjective

• limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
  • "a little dining room"
  • "a little house"
  • "a little (or small) group"
• (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"
• low in stature; not tall
  • "a little man"

Adjective Satellite

• (of children and animals) young, immature
  • "what a big little boy you are"
• (informal) small and of little importance
  • "a little (or small) matter"
• (of a voice) faint
  • "a little voice"
• lowercase
  • "little a"
• 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"

Adverb

• not much
  • "he talked little about his family"

Adj

• Small in size.
• Small in size.
• Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
• Insignificant, trivial.
• Insignificant, trivial.
• Used to belittle a person.
• Very young, of childhood age.
• Younger.
• Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
• Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
• To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
• Having few members.
• Operating on a small scale.
• Short in duration; brief.
• Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.

Adv

• Not much.
• Not at all.

Det

• Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).

Pron

• Not much; not a large amount.

Synonyms

fiddling, footling, lilliputian, minuscule, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, short, slight, small, trivial, under-endowed

Antonyms

big, large, much, tall

Related Words

a little, belittle, li'l, li'l', lil, little by little, little old

Anagrams of little