Few

Determiner

 * 1)  An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
 * I was expecting lots of people at the party, but very few (=almost none) turned up.
 * Quite a few of them (=many of them) were pleasantly surprised.
 * I don't know how many drinks I've had, but I've had a few. [This usage is likely ironic.]
 * 1)  Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
 * There are few people who understand quantum theory.
 * Many are called, but few are chosen.
 * 1)  (US?) Obscuring one eighth to two eighths of the sky.
 * Tonight.. A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.
 * NOAA definition of the term "few clouds": An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover of 1/8 to 2/8. This is applied only when obscuring phenomenon aloft are present--that is, not when obscuring phenomenon are surface-based, such as fog.
 * 1)  (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.

Pronoun

 * 1) Few people, few things.
 * Many are called, but few are chosen.

Antonyms

 * many

Adjectives for Few
unscornful; far-visioned; desperate; favored; comparative; privileged; hateful; chosen.

Adverbs for Few
remarkably; extremely; strangely; lamentably; significantly; deplorably; miserably; wretchedly; fortunately; happily; curiously; mercifully; presumably.

Thesaurus
cursory, depthless, footling, handful, hardly any, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, least, little, littlest, low, lowest, meager, miniature, minim, minimum, negligible, no great shakes, not many, occasional, of small number, petty, picayune, picayunish, precious little, rare, scarce, scarcely any, scattering, seldom, shallow, short, shortest, skin-deep, slightest, small, smallest, smatter, smattering, spatter, spattering, sporadic, sprinkling, superficial, tiny, trifling, trivial, uncommon, unfrequent

Etymology
From fewe:, from  feaw:, from, from. Cognate with fa:,  fo:,  fár:,  𐍆𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹:,  paucus:. More at.

Determiner

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قليلا
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: քիչ (k'ič),
 * Catalan: poc
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: λίγοι (pl. of ),
 * Hebrew: אחדים
 * Hungarian:


 * Ido: poka
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 少し
 * Korean: 적다
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Portuguese:, poucas
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: కొద్ది (koddi), కొలది (koladi)
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: قليل
 * Armenian: քիչ (k'ič),
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 少
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hindi: कम
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: わずか, 少数
 * Kurdish: ,


 * Macedonian:, малкумина
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: کم
 * Polish:, parę
 * Portuguese: poucos, poucas
 * Russian: мало
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: fåtal
 * Urdu: کم
 * Vietnamese: ít


 * Finnish: see: pilvisyys

Antonyms

 * many

Related terms

 * a few
 * little
 * quite a few