Little

Adjective

 * 1) Small in size.
 * This is a little table.
 * 1) Insignificant, trivial.
 * It's of little importance.
 * 1) Very young.
 * Did he tell you any embarrassing stories about when she was little?
 * That's the biggest little kid I've ever seen.
 * 1)  Younger.
 * This is my little sister.
 * 1) * 1871 October 18, The One-eyed Philosopher [pseudonym], "Street Corners", in Judy: or the London serio-comic journal, volume 9, page 255 :
 * If you want to find Little France, take any turning on the north side of Leicester square, and wander in a zigzag fashion Oxford Streetwards. The Little is rather smokier and more squalid than the Great France upon the other side of the Manche.
 * 1) * 2004, Barry Miles, Zappa: A Biography, 2005 edition, ISBN 080214215X, page 5:
 * In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore's Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.
 * In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore's Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.

Antonyms

 * large, big
 * big
 * big

Adverb

 * 1) Not much.
 * This is a little known fact.
 * She spoke little and listened less.

Antonyms

 * much

Determiner

 * 1) Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
 * There is little water left.
 * We had very little to do.

Antonyms

 * much

Thesaurus
Lilliputian, a bit, a breath, a little, abject, abominable, ace, arrant, atom, atrocious, authoritarian, baby, back-burner, bantam, barely, base, beggarly, bigot, bigoted, bit, borne, bowshot, brief, brief span, by a hair, by an ace, casual, cheap, cheesy, close quarters, close range, closed, collateral, compact, compendious, concise, constricted, contemptible, crack, cramped, creedbound, crumb, crummy, cursory, curt, curtal, curtate, dab, deaf, deaf to reason, debased, decurtate, deficient, degraded, depraved, depthless, despicable, diminutive, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dispensable, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, earreach, earshot, elfin, ever so little, execrable, exiguous, exiguously, faintly, fanatical, farthing, feebly, few, flagrant, fleck, flyspeck, footling, fortuitous, foul, fragment, fulsome, gobbet, grain, granule, grave, groat, gross, gunshot, hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, half-pint, handful, hardly, hardly any, hardly ever, heinous, hidebound, illiberal, immaterial, imperfect, imperfectly, in a nutshell, in miniature, in the small, inadequate, inappreciable, inappreciably, inch, incidental, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsequentially, inconsiderable, ineffectual, inessential, inferior, infinitesimal, infrequently, insignificant, insignificantly, instant, instantaneous, insufficient, insular, iota, irrelevant, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, jot, just a bit, knee-high, light, lightly, limited, little bit, little ways, little while, little-minded, low, low-down, lumpen, maladroit, mangy, meager, meagerly, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, microscopic, midget, mingy, mini, miniature, minim, minimally, minimum, minor, minuscule, minute, minutely, minutiae, miserable, mite, modicum, molecule, moment, monkey, monstrous, mote, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nefarious, negligible, negligibly, niggard, niggardly, no, no great shakes, no time, nonessential, not any, not comparable, not enough, not hardly, not in it, not much, not vital, nutshell, obnoxious, odious, one-horse, only just, ounce, out of it, pair of winks, paltry, parochial, particle, pebble, petit, petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pinch, pindling, pint-sized, pistol shot, pittance, point, poky, poor, potty, provincial, puny, purblind, pygmy, rank, rarely, reptilian, scabby, scant, scantily, scanty, scarcely, scrap, scrubby, scruffy, scruple, scummy, scurvy, secondary, seldom, self-centered, selfish, set, shabby, shallow, shoddy, shoestring, short, short and sweet, short distance, short piece, short spell, short time, short way, shortsighted, skimpy, skin-deep, slight, slightly, small, small space, small-beer, small-minded, smallish, smally, smidgen, smidgin, smitch, span, sparse, speck, spitting distance, spoonful, spot, spurt, squalid, step, stingy, straitlaced, stuffy, subordinate, subsidiary, succinct, summary, superficial, synoptic, tant soit peu, taste, technical, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, thimbleful, tiny, tiny bit, tittle, toy, transient, trifling, trifling amount, triflingly, trivia, trivial, two shakes, two-by-four, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized, unessential, unfrequently, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant, unimpressive, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unoften, unskillful, vile, weakly, wee, whit, wretched, young, youthful

Etymology
litel: < lytel:, from  (West Germanic *lutilaz), from. Cognate with Dutch luttel:, German lützel:, lyts:,  lütt:,  luzzil:,  lützel:,  lutan:; and perhaps to Old English lytig:,  𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃:, 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽:; compare also Icelandic lítill:, Swedish liten:, Danish liden:, lille:,  𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃:, which appear to have a different root vowel. More at lout.

Pronunciation

 * also
 * also

Adjective

 * Arabic: (ṣaġīr)
 * Aragonese: chicote
 * Armenian: փոքր (p'ok'r),
 * Azeri: kiçik
 * Basque: txiki
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: kiçik, kiçkene
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: პატარ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: (ćhoṭā)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 小さい (ちいさい, chiisai)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: بچووک, بچکۆله‌
 * Lao:
 * Latin: parvus, paulus
 * Lithuanian: Šėtoniškasis
 * Macedonian:
 * Mapudungun:
 * Norwegian:
 * Rapanui: iti
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చిన్న (chinna)
 * Turkish: küçük
 * Urdu: (ćhoṭā)
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * West Frisian:


 * Dutch: klein
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:


 * Irish:
 * Latin: iuvenis
 * Macedonian:, малечок
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian: փոքր (p'ok'r)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (mikrós)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: (ćhoṭā)


 * Hungarian: kis, younger brother: öcs, younger sister: húg
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: بچووک, بچکۆله‌
 * Latin: iuvenis
 * Macedonian:, малечок
 * Norwegian: lille-
 * Scots: wee
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: yngre, lille-
 * Telugu: చిన్న (chinna)
 * Urdu: (ćhoṭā)


 * Syriac: ܙܥܘܪܐ (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro), ܙܥܘܪܬܐ (z‘ūrtā, z‘ūrto)
 * Hebrew: זעורא (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro), זעורתא (z‘ūrtā, z‘ūrto)
 * : cenik
 * : થોડું
 * : lítill
 * : mikra
 * : kecil
 * : كوچنى (kuchnay)
 * : menor (2); poco, poca ,(2)
 * : bach, bychan
 * : bach, bychan

Adverb

 * Arabic: قليلا
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: gutxi
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: થોડું
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: कम
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:


 * Ido: poka
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 少ない
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: که‌م
 * Latin: paucus, non multus
 * Macedonian:
 * Old English:
 * Persian: کم
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Urdu: کم
 * Vietnamese: ít

Determiner

 * Armenian: ,
 * Catalan: poc, una mica de
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, een beetje
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Hindi: थोड़ा (thoṛā)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: نه‌ختێ, که‌م
 * Macedonian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Telugu: కొంచెం (konchem), కొంత (konta)
 * Urdu: تھوڑا (thoṛā)

Related terms

 * a little
 * little by little