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Adj. | 1. | little - 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" Synonyms: small Antonyms: big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" |
2. | little - (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 hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "a little time is left" Antonyms: much - (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent; "not much rain"; "much affection"; "much grain is in storage" | |
3. | little - of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away" Synonyms: brief | |
4. | little - not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" Synonyms: small | |
5. | little - (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 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, footling, Mickey Mouse, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial, petty, lilliputian | |
6. | little - (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" Synonyms: small | |
7. | little - younger brother or sister; "little brother" Synonyms: younger | |
8. | little - lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" | |
9. | little - 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" | |
Adv. | 1. | little - not much; "he talked little about his family" |
LITTLE - A typeless language used to produce machine-independent
software. LITTLE has been used to implement SETL. "Guide to the LITTLE Language", D. Shields, LITTLE Newsletter 33, Courant Inst (Aug 1977). |