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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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