lit·tle /ˈlɪtəl/
1. a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"
synset: little
1. 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"
2. (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"
3. (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
4. (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"
synset: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
5. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
6. low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
7. lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
synset: little, minuscule, small
8. 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"
synset: little
1. not much; "he talked little about his family"
synset: little
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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