Little - Definition

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"