little

Meaning

Adj

1. Small in size.
2. Small in size.
3. Insignificant, trivial.
4. Insignificant, trivial.
5. Very young, of childhood age.
6. Younger.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Having few members.
10. Operating on a small scale.
11. Short in duration; brief.
12. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.

Adv

1. Not much.
2. Not at all.

Det

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

Pron

Not much; not a large amount.

Noun

1. A small amount.
2. (informal) A child, particularly an infant.
3. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
4. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
5. An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
6. Short for little go (“type of examination”).

Concepts

little

small

few

tiny

slight

bit

slightly

some

short

young

diminutive

insignificant

a little

minute

not much

small quantity

somewhat

not many

scanty

petty

trivial

less

trifling

wee

minor

paltry

meagre

a bit

light

limited

a little bit

scarce

low

piddling

fine

unimportant

petite

negligible

narrow

poor

miniature

minuscule

pygmy

scant

mean

footling

niggling

piffling

picayune

very little

humble

rare

pieces

nickel-and-dime

not large

kid

not great

somehow

something

insufficient

gradually

hardly

rarely

mini

undersized

moderate

puny

not heavy

smallish

a few

sparse

seldom

brief

slender

not enough

some extent

part

fiddling

lilliputian

kind of

lack

become small

make small

small size

inadequate

scantily

sparingly

rather

little bit

inconsiderable

small-time

unimposing

unimpressive

uninfluential

lowercase

tiny bit

jot

not long

few in number

pocket-size

meager

finger

animal

take a dim view of

merely

only

midget

illiberal

short distance

short time

younger

immature

peewee

not very much

few things

atomic

in a low degree

contracted

dwarfish

measured off

in a small degree

measured

sparing

small quantity of

but a little

fraction

delicate

trifle

many

much

odd

betty

smallest

youngest

please

frugal

petit

scrimp

be short

be

dearth

smallness

in two

rest

child

infant

partial

tender

lesser

smaller

micro

microscopic

very small

floret

flower

fish

bell

creature

mite

soul

thing

quail

stumpy

table

thin

adynamic

bad

debilitated

dicky

dull

enervated

faint

feeble

flagging

forceless

fragile

languid

powerless

slim

soft

subduable

subjugable

unnerved

weak

chintzy

invalid

no-account

no-count

null

potty

shrimpy

subfusc

small-scale

wisp

peanut

a trifle

base

baseborn

borderline

immaterial

inconsequential

lightweight

low-level

lowly

marginal

menial

venial

pinch

vaguely

small amount

partially

small number

not tall

insufficiently

not big

dispersed

scattered

tenuous

won

weal

a large number of

extent

magnitude

quantity

deficient

owe

point

speck

congee

dwarf

step by step

black duck

grebe

leaf

duck

whistler

sugarbag

corella

axe

Hyphenated as

lit‧tle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɪtl̩/

Etymology

From Middle English litel, from Old English lyttel, lȳtel, from Proto-West Germanic *lūtil, from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“tending to stoop, crouched, little”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to bend, bent, small”), equivalent to lout + -le. Cognate with Dutch luttel, regional German lütt and lützel, Saterland Frisian litje, West Frisian lyts, Low German lütt, lüttje. Related also to Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend low”); and perhaps to Old English lytiġ (“deceitful”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 (liuts, “deceitful”), 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lutjan, “to deceive”); compare also Icelandic lítill (“little”), Faroese lítil, Swedish liten, Danish liden, lille, Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (leitils), which appear to have a different root vowel. More at lout.

Sentences

Fly by night and you waste little time .

Give them a little third degree .

One can imagine these two , covered with sand , running up the little street in the bright sunlight .

They took little food and slept at their oars .

I'm feeling a little tipsy .

Passive recreation typically requires little management and can be provided at very low costs .

Great braggers , little doers .

According to Victor Vassiliev, Arnold worked comparatively little on topology for topology's sake .