Grep of noun little
battle of little bighorn
battle of the little bighorn
chicken little
doolittle
james harold doolittle
jimmy doolittle
little
little-head snakeweed
little-leaf fig
little-league team
little auk
little barley
little bear
little bighorn
little bighorn river
little black ant
little blue heron
little brother
little brown bat
little brown myotis
little chief hare
little club moss
little clubmoss
little dictionary
little dipper
little dog
little ebony spleenwort
little egret
little finger
little girl
little golden zinnia
little grebe
little hand
little horn
little joe
little john
little league
little leaguer
little lord fauntleroy
little missouri
little missouri river
little mo connolly
little office
little owl
little phoebe
little potato
little red ricing hood
little rhody
little rock
little sister
little skate
little slam
little sparrow
little spotted skunk
little terror
little theater
little theatre
little toe
littleneck
littleneck clam
littleness
malcolm little
quite a little
the little corporal
the little giant
Overview of noun little
The noun little has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (12) little -- (a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him")
Overview of adj little
The adj little has 9 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (165) small little -- (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")
2. (71) 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 hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "a little time isleft")
3. (19) brief, little -- (of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away")
4. (12) little, small -- (not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children")
5. (8) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial -- ((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 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")
6. (3) little, small -- ((of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice")
7. little, younger -- (younger brother or sister; "little brother")
8. little, minuscule, small -- (lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters")
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")
Overview of adv little
The adv little has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (16) little -- (not much "he talked little about his family")
Antonyms of adj little
9 senses of little
Sense 1
small (vs. large), little (vs. big)
large (vs. small), big (vs. little)
=> ample, sizable, sizeable
=> astronomic, astronomical, galactic
=> banner
=> bigger, larger
=> biggest, greatest, largest
=> biggish, largish
=> blown-up, enlarged
=> bouffant, puffy
=> bulky
=> capacious
=> colossal, prodigious, stupendous
=> cosmic
=> deep
=> double
=> elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo
=> epic, heroic, larger-than-life
=> extensive, extended
=> great
=> hulking, hulky
=> humongous, thumping, whopping, walloping
=> king-size, king-sized
=> large-scale
=> life-size, life-sized, full-size
=> macro
=> man-sized
=> massive, monolithic, monumental
=> massive
=> monstrous
=> mountainous
=> outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized
=> plumping
=> colossal, prodigious, stupendous
=> queen-size, queen-sized
=> rangy
=> ample, sizable, sizeable
=> broad, spacious, wide
=> super
=> titanic
=> voluminous
=> enormous, tremendous
=> gigantic, mammoth
=> huge, immense, vast
=> large-scale
=> overlarge, too large
=> whacking
=> wide-ranging
Sense 2
little(postnominal) (vs. much)
much(postnominal) (vs. little)
=> overmuch
=> some(postnominal)
=> such(postnominal), so much
=> untold
Sense 3
brief, little
INDIRECT (VIA short) -> long
Sense 4
little, small
INDIRECT (VIA young) -> old
Sense 5
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
INDIRECT (VIA unimportant) -> important, of import
Sense 6
little, small
INDIRECT (VIA soft) -> loud
Sense 7
little(postnominal) (vs. big), younger
big(postnominal) (vs. little), elder, older
Sense 8
little, minuscule, small
INDIRECT (VIA lowercase) -> uppercase
Sense 9
little
INDIRECT (VIA emotional) -> unemotional
Similarity of adj little
9 senses of little
Sense 1
small (vs. large), little (vs. big)
=> bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny
=> bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy
=> dinky
=> dwarf, dwarfish
=> elfin, elflike
=> gnomish
=> half-size
=> infinitesimal, minute, microscopic
=> least, littlest, smallest
=> lesser
=> micro
=> miniature
=> minuscule, miniscule
=> pocket-size, pocket-sized
=> puny, runty, shrimpy
=> slender, slim
=> smaller, littler
=> smallish
=> small-scale
=> undersize, undersized
Sense 2
little(postnominal) (vs. much)
=> small(postnominal)
=> slight
Also See-> less#1
Sense 3
brief, little
=> short (vs. long)
Sense 4
little, small
=> young (vs. old), immature
Sense 5
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
=> unimportant (vs. important)
Sense 6
little, small
=> soft (vs. loud)
Sense 7
little(postnominal) (vs. big), younger
Sense 8
little, minuscule, small
=> lowercase (vs. uppercase)
Sense 9
little
=> emotional (vs. unemotional)
Attributes of adj little
1 of 9 senses of little
Sense 1
small (vs. large), little (vs. big)
=> size
Familiarity of adj little
little used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 9)
Grep of adj little
little
littler
littlest
too little
Overview of noun little
The noun little has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (12) little -- (a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him")
Overview of adj little
The adj little has 9 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (165) small little -- (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")
2. (71) 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 hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "a little time isleft")
3. (19) brief, little -- (of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away")
4. (12) little, small -- (not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children")
5. (8) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial -- ((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 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")
6. (3) little, small -- ((of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice")
7. little, younger -- (younger brother or sister; "little brother")
8. little, minuscule, small -- (lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters")
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")
Overview of adv little
The adv little has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (16) little -- (not much "he talked little about his family")
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