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Synonyms and Antonyms of bits
- she left only a bit of the broccoli on her plate
aces, dabs, dashes, driblets, drops, fractions, haets [chiefly Scottish], halfpence (or halfpennies), ha'pennies, iotas, jots, kennings [chiefly Scottish], licks, minims, mites, modicums, nutshells, ounces, pinches, shreds, smatters, smidgens (also smidgeons), spots, strains, streaks, suspicions, tastes, touches, traces, whispers, whits
bites, mouthfuls, nibbles, tidbits (also titbits)
fragments, parts, portions, sections
- bits of cookie scattered on the table
- I'll have only a bit of food right now
aces, crumbs, dabs, drams, driblets, glimmers, hints, licks, little, mites, nips, ounces, particles, peanuts, rays, scintillas, scruples, shades, shadows, shreds, skoshes, smacks, smells, smidgens (also smidgeons), snaps, soupçons, sparks, spatters, specks, splashes, spots, sprinklings, strains, streaks, suspicions, touches, traces
hoots, iotas, jots, minima (or minimums), minims, modicums, semblances, syllables, tittles, vestiges, whits
atoms, dots, flecks, flyspecks, grains, granules, molecules, morsels, motes, nubbins, patches, scraps
handfuls (also handsful), scatterings, smatterings, smatters
chips, flakes, fragments, shards, shivers, slivers, smithereens, splinters
abundances, barrels, boatloads, buckets, bundles, bushels, deals, fistfuls, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lots, masses, messes, mountains, much, oodles, passels, pecks, piles, plenties, potfuls, profusions, quantities, rafts, reams, scads, stacks, wads, wealths
bonanzas, embarrassments, excesses, overabundances, overages, overflows, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surpluses
- this will only take a bit
beats, eyeblinks, flashes, heartbeats, instants, jiffies, jiffs, minutes, moments, nanoseconds, New York minutes, seconds, shakes, split seconds, spurts, trices, twinkles, twinklings, winks
aeons (or eons), ages, eternities, infinities, perpetuities
- wielding silver trays, the servers offered partygoers a variety of exotic-looking bits
cates [archaic], dainties, delectables, delicacies, goodies, kickshaws, tidbits (also titbits), treats, viands
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