little

1. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent (synset 301394303)
   "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"
   tells us about: size - the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
   similar to:

   • atomic - immeasurably small
   • subatomic - of smaller than atomic dimensions
   • bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny - very small
   • bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny, teeny-weeny, wee, weensy, weeny - (used informally) very small
   • dinky, insignificant - small and unimpressive
   • dwarfish - atypically small
   • elfin, elflike - small and delicate
   • gnomish - used of small deformed creatures
   • half-size - half the usual or regular size
   • infinitesimal, minute - infinitely or immeasurably small
   • lesser - smaller in size or amount or value
   • microscopic, microscopical - so small as to be invisible without a microscope
   • micro - extremely small in scale or scope or capability
   • miniature - being on a very small scale
   • miniscule, minuscule - extremely small
   • olive-sized - about the size of an olive
   • pocket-size, pocket-sized, pocketable - small enough to be carried in a garment pocket
   • puny, runty, shrimpy - (used especially of persons) of inferior size
   • slender, slim - small in quantity
   • littler, smaller - small or little relative to something else
   • smallish - rather small
   • small-scale - created or drawn on a small scale
   • undersize, undersized - smaller than normal for its kind
   same as: small
2. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree;
   Not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some (synset 301558903)
   "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"
   also: less - (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree
   similar to: small - slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
   same as: slight
3. (of children and animals) young, immature (synset 301653473)
   "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
   similar to: immature, young - (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
   same as: small
4. (informal) small and of little importance (synset 301284018)
   "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"
   domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
   similar to: unimportant - not important
   same as: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial
5. (of a voice) faint (synset 301458511)
   "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
   similar to: soft - (of sound) relatively low in volume
   same as: small
6. Low in stature;
   Not tall (synset 302395180)
   "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
   also: low - literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
   tells us about: height, stature - (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
   similar to:

   • chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy - short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
   • compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset - having a short and solid form or stature
   • half-length - representing only the upper half of the body
   • 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
   same as: short
7. Lowercase (synset 301470449)
   "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
   similar to: lowercase - relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case
   same as: minuscule, small
8. Small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) (synset 300858857)
   "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"
   similar to: emotional - of more than usual emotion

1. A small amount or duration (synset 113784857)
   "he accepted the little they gave him"
   is a type of: small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude

1. Not much (synset 400100552)
   "he talked little about his family"

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