little

Значение (Английский)

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”).

Синонимы

small

few

🤏

tiny

slight

bit

slightly

short

some

young

diminutive

insignificant

minute

a little

not much

small quantity

not many

somewhat

scanty

petty

less

trivial

trifling

wee

minor

paltry

limited

meagre

light

a bit

a little bit

piddling

low

scarce

unimportant

poor

petite

fine

negligible

narrow

nickel-and-dime

footling

minuscule

miniature

mean

humble

piffling

pieces

picayune

pygmy

rare

scant

very little

not large

niggling

slender

a few

🤏

brief

few in number

fiddling

finger

gradually

hardly

inadequate

inconsiderable

insufficient

jot

kid

🧒

kind of

lack

lilliputian

little bit

lowercase

mini

moderate

not long

pocket-size

puny

rarely

rather

scantily

seldom

part

smallish

small-time

somehow

something

sparingly

sparse

tiny bit

undersized

unimposing

unimpressive

uninfluential

become small

not enough

not great

not heavy

small size

some extent

make small

atomic

much

fraction

forceless

flower

🌸

floret

no-account

flagging

sugarbag

odd

only

owe

feeble

partial

partially

peanut

peewee

petit

faint

extent

enervated

dwarfish

dwarf

dull

pinch

please

meager

point

duck

🦆

potty

powerless

subfusc

dispersed

quail

quantity

dicky

animal

🐾

very small

rest

delicate

short distance

deficient

debilitated

scattered

scrimp

subjugable

dearth

short time

fish

🐟

creature

contracted

slim

congee

smaller

smallest

a large number of

smallness

small-scale

subduable

soft

chintzy

not very much

take a dim view of

child

🧒

soul

sparing

not tall

not big

speck

step by step

stumpy

table

tender

tenuous

thin

thing

borderline

in a low degree

trifle

betty

bell

🔔

in a small degree

be

meagre

measured off

but a little

unnerved

vaguely

venial

weak

weal

baseborn

whistler

wisp

won

base

younger

youngest

adynamic

a trifle

small quantity of

be short

few things

in two

no-count

black duck

shrimpy

corella

languid

leaf

invalid

lesser

insufficiently

lightweight

bad

👎

infant

axe

🪓

inconsequential

small amount

low-level

lowly

magnitude

many

marginal

meager

immature

immaterial

measured

menial

merely

micro

microscopic

midget

small number

illiberal

grebe

frugal

fragile

mite

Пишется через дефис как

lit‧tle

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈlɪtl̩/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: litel

Унаследовано от староанглийский: lyttel

Родственно нидерландский: luttel

Родственно немецкий: lütt

Родственно Saterfriesisch: litje

Родственно западнофризский: lyts

Родственно нижненемецкий: lütt

Родственно староанглийский: lūtan

Родственно староанглийский: lytiġ

Родственно готский: 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃

Родственно исландский: lítill

Родственно фарерский: lítil

Родственно шведский: liten

Родственно датский: liden

Родственно готский: 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃

In summary

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.

Предложения

But you were a little girl .

Но ты была маленькой девочкой.

There was very little talking .

Было очень мало разговоров.

Fly by night and you waste little time .

Летать ночью, и вы тратите немного времени.

It seemed such a little thing , so bright and small and still .

Это казалось такой мелочи, такой яркой и маленькой и неподвижной.

I found a little crowd of about twenty people surrounding the huge hole .

Я нашел маленькую толпу около двадцати человек, окружающих огромную дыру.

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

Можно представить, что эти двое, покрытые песком, бегут по маленькой улице в ярком солнечном свете.