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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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