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iota

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of iota

the smallest amount or part imaginable

There's not an iota of doubt regarding the defendant's guilt.

Synonyms of iota

beans, continental, darn (also durn), fig, hoot, jot, lick, modicum, rap, syllable, tittle, whit, whoop

Words Related to iota

ace, bit, crumb, dab, driblet, glimmer, hint, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, pin, ray, scrap, scruple, semblance, shade, shadow, shred, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, touch, trace

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