little
adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude
or extent; "a little dining room"; "a small house";
"read the small print"; "a little (or small) group"
[syn: {small}] [ant: {large}, {large}]
2: (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" [syn: {little(a)}] [ant: {much(a)}]
3: of short duration; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a
little while" [syn: {brief}]
4: very young; "a little child"; "small children" [syn: {small}]
5: of little importance or influence or power; of minor status;
"a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "the little man";
"peanut politicians"; "a crowd of small writers had vainly
attempted to rival Addison"- Macaulay [syn: {insignificant},
{peanut}, {small}]
6: (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"; "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" [syn: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian}, {niggling},
{piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}]
7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
[syn: {small}]
8: contemptibly narrow in outlook; "a little mind consumed with
trivia"; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with the
pettiness of small minds" [syn: {petty}, {small}, {small-minded}]
9: younger and (at least formerly) smaller than another though
relative size is not the issue; "little brother" [syn: {little(a)},
{younger}] [ant: {big(a)}]
10: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
written all in minuscule letters" [syn: {minuscule}, {small}]
11: used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative
of lack of generosity; "a small miserly man" [syn: {mean},
{mingy}, {miserly}, {small}, {tight}]
n : a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they
gave him"
adv : not much; "he talked little about his family"