little

little
adj
1. small, tiny, teeny, pint-size, wee, mini, short, snub; All Baby Talk. teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty, teensy-weensy; Lilliputian, elfin, like Tom Thumb, pygmy, Inf. peewee, baby, child's toy, bantam; undersized, underweight, lightweight; diminutive, petite, minikin, dainty, slender, slim, thin, slight, skinny; midget, miniature, miniscule, minute, atomic, infinitesimal, microscopic; puny, runty, stunted, scrubby, dwarfish, homuncular, shrunken.
2. brief, limited, abbreviated; fleeting, transitory, fugacious, fugitive, momentary, passing, transient, volatile; ephemeral, over in a wink, soon over with, short-lived, unenduring.
3. skimpy, sparse, scant, exiguous, meager; insufficient, thinly scattered, stinted, piddling.
4. paltry, trifling, trivial, halfpenny, nugatory, inconsiderable, Inf. dinky; frivolous, unimportant, insignificant, inappreciable, imperceptible, inconspicuous; not vital, immaterial, inconsequential, worthless, inadequate, useless; unknown, obscure, nameless, unnoticed.
5. weak, powerless, unforceful, feeble, poor; faint, frail, delicate, fragile, flimsy: soft, quiet, low, hushed, subdued; indistinct, inaudible, muffled, muted, stifled; mediocre, imperfect, inferior, second-rate, third-rate, below par.
6. mean, petty, picayune; illiberal, intolerant, narrow, narrow-minded; shallow, insular, parochial, provincial, blinded, unimaginative, purblind; biased, bigoted, opinionated, unreasonable, arbitrary, uncompromising, stiff-necked, inflexible; niggardly, penurious, close, close-fisted, tight, scrimpy, miserly, stingy.
7. contemptible, despicable, despised, nasty, rotten, low-down, base, vile, dastardly, Sl. schmucky, Sl. yut-zy; sordid, Sl. yucky.
adv
8. not at all, by no means; not much, only just, barely, imperceptibly, inappreciably, hardly, not quite, limitedly; vaguely, slightly, in some degree, faintly, rather.
9. rarely, seldom, infrequently, uncommonly; once in a while, once in a great while; from time to time, once in a blue moon, scarcely, hardly ever.
n
10. hardly any, practically nothing, next to nothing, Sp. un poco; Inf. smidgen, few, scantling, modicum, trifle; jot, whit, spot, bit, tittle, pennyworth; dash, dab, dollop, crumb, driplet, drop, thimbleful; particle, speck, sprinkling, grain; germ, molecule, atom; snippet, snip, scrap, shred, hair, splinter, sliver, fraction; touch, suggestion, soupgon, hint, suspicion.
11. short distance, a hoot and a holler, a piece, down the road a piece, stone's throw, bit, few steps, spitting distance.
12. short time, Sl. a mo, Sl. a sec, second, trice, less than no time, two shakes of a lamb's tail, before you can say Constantinople, a wink.

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