molehill

noun

mole·​hill ˈmōl-ˌhil 

: a little mound or ridge of earth pushed up by a mole

Examples of molehill in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But last week, the typically gargantuan feta mountain was more like a molehill—all because of a feta cheese shortage starting in Greece. —Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026

In cases where legacy tools would force teams to slog through, for example, 3,400 checks with 600 million errors, Vision AI’s clustering can reduce that effort to investigating just 381 groups—turning mountains into molehills and speeding debug time by at least 2x. —IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025

Everyone made a bit of a mountain out of a molehill. —Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025

Every other mountain in the Alaska Range looked like the proverbial molehill compared to the 20,000-foot behemoth. —The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing molehill

• make a mountain out of a molehill

Rhymes for molehill

• basophil
• carboxyl
• daffodil
• neutrophil
• overkill
• anthill
• backfill
• bluegill
• crossbill
• distil
• distill
• downhill

Kids Definition

molehill

noun

mole·​hill ˈmōl-ˌhil 

1

: a small mound or ridge of earth pushed up by a burrowing mole

2

: an unimportant obstacle or difficulty

made a mountain out of a molehill