| little | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. little | a small amount or duration.; "he accepted the little they gave him" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| adj. | 2. little, small | 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" |
| ~ atomic | immeasurably small. |
| ~ subatomic | of smaller than atomic dimensions. |
| ~ bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny, lilliputian | very small.; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" |
| ~ bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny, teeny-weeny, wee, weensy, weeny | (used informally) very small.; "a wee tot" |
| ~ dinky | small and insignificant.; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel" |
| ~ dwarfish | atypically small.; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star" |
| ~ elflike, elfin | small and delicate.; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small" |
| ~ gnomish | used of small deformed creatures. |
| ~ half-size | half the usual or regular size. |
| ~ infinitesimal, minute | infinitely or immeasurably small.; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale" |
| ~ lesser | smaller in size or amount or value.; "the lesser powers of Europe"; "the lesser anteater" |
| ~ microscopical, microscopic | so small as to be invisible without a microscope.; "differences were microscopic" |
| ~ micro | extremely small in scale or scope or capability. |
| ~ miniature | being on a very small scale.; "a miniature camera" |
| ~ miniscule, minuscule | very small.; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell" |
| ~ olive-sized | about the size of an olive. |
| ~ pocketable, pocket-size, pocket-sized | small enough to be carried in a garment pocket.; "pocket-size paperbacks" |
| ~ shrimpy, puny, runty | (used especially of persons) of inferior size. |
| ~ slim, slender | small in quantity.; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus" |
| ~ littler, smaller | small or little relative to something else. |
| ~ smallish | rather small. |
| ~ small-scale | created or drawn on a small scale.; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model" |
| ~ undersize, undersized | smaller than normal for its kind. |
| adj. | 3. little, slight | (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some.; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work" |
| ~ small | slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope.; "a series of death struggles with small time in between" |
| ~ less | (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.; "of less importance"; "less time to spend with the family"; "a shower uses less water"; "less than three years old" |
| adj. | 4. little, small | (of children and animals) young, immature.; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" |
| ~ young, immature | (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth.; "young people" |
| adj. | 5. fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial | (informal) 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"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ unimportant | not important.; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant" |
| adj. | 6. little, small | (of a voice) faint.; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" |
| ~ soft | (of sound) relatively low in volume.; "soft voices"; "soft music" |
| adj. | 7. little, short | low in stature; not tall.; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" |
| ~ low | literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension.; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow" |
| ~ low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy, chunky, dumpy | short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature.; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure" |
| ~ heavyset, stocky, thickset, compact, thick | having a short and solid form or stature.; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man" |
| ~ half-length | representing only the upper half of the body.; "a half-length portrait" |
| ~ pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off | well below average height. |
| ~ short-stalked | of plants having relatively short stalks. |
| ~ squab, squabby | short and fat. |
| adj. | 8. little, minuscule, small | lowercase.; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" |
| ~ lowercase | relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case.; "lowercase letters; a and b and c etc" |
| adj. | 9. little | 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"; "what a nasty little situation" |
| ~ emotional | of more than usual emotion.; "his behavior was highly emotional" |
| adv. | 10. little | not much.; "he talked little about his family" |
| slight | | |
| n. (act) | 1. rebuff, slight | a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval). |
| ~ offense, offensive activity, discourtesy, offence | a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others. |
| ~ cold shoulder, snub, cut | a refusal to recognize someone you know.; "the snub was clearly intentional" |
| ~ silent treatment | an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. cold-shoulder, slight | pay no attention to, disrespect.; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance" |
| ~ brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside | bar from attention or consideration.; "She dismissed his advances" |
| adj. | 3. flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin | lacking substance or significance.; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; "a fragile claim to fame" |
| ~ unimportant, insignificant | devoid of importance, meaning, or force. |
| adj. | 4. slender, slight, slim, svelte | being of delicate or slender build.; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street" |
| ~ lean, thin | lacking excess flesh.; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look" |
| small | | |
| n. (body) | 1. small | the slender part of the back. |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ back, dorsum | the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine.; "his back was nicely tanned" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. small | a garment size for a small person. |
| ~ size | the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing).; "he wears a size 13 shoe" |
| adj. | 3. minor, modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale | limited in size or scope.; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country" |
| ~ limited | small in range or scope.; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends" |
| adj. | 4. small | slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope.; "a series of death struggles with small time in between" |
| ~ archaicism, archaism | the use of an archaic expression. |
| ~ slight, little | (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some.; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work" |
| adj. | 5. humble, low, lowly, modest, small | low or inferior in station or quality.; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" |
| ~ inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
| adj. | 6. small | have fine or very small constituent particles.; "a small misty rain" |
| ~ fine | of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles.; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust" |
| adj. | 7. modest, small | not large but sufficient in size or amount.; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way" |
| ~ moderate | being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme.; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart" |
| adj. | 8. belittled, diminished, small | made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth).; "her comments made me feel small" |
| ~ decreased, reduced | made less in size or amount or degree. |
| adv. | 9. small | on a small scale.; "think small" |
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