Little

/ˈlɪ.tl̩/ · adjective

Meaning

Small, not large, limited, particularly:.

Definitions by Sense

1. Small, not large, limited, particularly:
2. Not much.
3. Not at all.
4. Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
5. Not much; not a large amount.
6. (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
7. (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
8. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.

Example Sentences

This is a little-known fact: the new model is little faster than the old one.

She spoke little and listened less.

We slept very little last night.

Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to “Chat of the Social World,” gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl’s intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.

Little did he know that the burglar was creeping upstairs at that very moment.

She little knew what awaited her.

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a ‘bead’ could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

There is (very) little water left.

Synonyms for little

Antonyms for little

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Word Forms

• littler
• lesser
• littlest
• least
• lil
• li'l
• li'l'
• lit'l
• leetle
• lettle
• lickle
• luttle
• luttul
• laitle
• laahtle
• lahtle
• laitil
• leytel
• liddle
• litle
• lytel
• laatle
• littel
• lyttil
• lytil
• lyttel
• lytyl
• litel
• lytell
• litell

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