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Meaning of little


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  little
      adv 1: not much; "he talked little about his family"
      adj 1: 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" [syn:
             {small}, {little}] [ant: {big}, {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
         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" [syn: {little(a)},
         {slight}] [ant: {much(a)}]
      3: (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little
         boy you are"; "small children" [syn: {little}, {small}]
      4: (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" [syn: {fiddling},
         {footling}, {lilliputian}, {little}, {niggling}, {piddling},
         {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}]
      5: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
         [syn: {little}, {small}]
      6: low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short
         in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" [syn:
         {short}, {little}] [ant: {tall}]
      7: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
         written all in minuscule letters" [syn: {little},
         {minuscule}, {small}]
      8: 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"
      n 1: a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they
           gave him"


WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu

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