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LITTLE
1. [n] a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"
2. [s] 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
3. [s] (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 nig
4. [a] 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"
5. [s] of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it''s a little way away"
6. [s] (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
7. [s] lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings''s poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
8. [s] not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
9. [r] not much; "he talked little about his family"
similar words
1. [a] emotional
2. [a] unimportant
3. [s] bantam
4. [s] diminutive
5. [s] lilliputian
6. [s] midget
7. [s] petite
8. [s] tiny
9. [s] flyspeck
10. [s] bitty
11. [s] bittie
12. [s] teensy
13. [s] teentsy
14. [s] teeny
15. [s] wee
16. [s] weeny
17. [s] weensy
18. [s] teensy-weensy
19. [s] teeny-weeny
20. [s] itty-bitty
21. [s] itsy-bitsy
22. [s] dinky
23. [s] dwarfish
24. [s] elfin
25. [s] elflike
26. [s] gnomish
27. [s] half-size
28. [s] infinitesimal
29. [s] minute
30. [s] microscopic
31. [s] least
32. [s] littlest
33. [s] smallest
34. [s] lesser
35. [s] micro
36. [s] miniature
37. [s] minuscule
38. [s] miniscule
39. [s] pocket-size
40. [s] pocket-sized
41. [s] pocketable
42. [s] puny
43. [s] runty
44. [s] shrimpy
45. [s] slender
46. [s] slim
47. [s] smaller
48. [s] littler
49. [s] smallish
50. [s] small-scale
51. [s] undersize
52. [s] undersized
53. [a] short
54. [a] soft
55. [a] lowercase
56. [a] young
57. [a] immature
opposite words
1. [a] large
2. [a] big
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