Thesaurus
little
Synonyms and Antonyms of little
- there was a little hedge separating the two lawns
- there were just a few little details left to take care of
- little-minded people who dislike the fact that human society is always progressing
inflexible, ironbound, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, set, stubborn, unyielding, wrongheaded
biased, discriminating, discriminatory, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced
brass bound, hidebound, old-fashioned, reactionary, stodgy, straitlaced (or straightlaced), stuffy
dogmatic (also dogmatical), opinionated, opinionative
- let's take a little pause to relax
extended, far, great, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out (or long-drawn), long-lived
- the petting zoo has a little horse in addition to all of the goats and sheep
bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, fine, half-pint, Lilliputian, pint-size (or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size (also pocket-sized), puny, pygmy, shrimpy, slight, small, smallish, subnormal, toylike, undersized (also undersize)
runtish, runty, scrubby, stunted
bitty, inappreciable, infinitesimal, little bitty, micro, microscopic (also microscopical), mini, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minim, minuscule, minute, pinpoint, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee, weeny (also weensy)
meager (or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stingy
deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting
bite-size (also bite-sized), capsule
bulky, hefty, hulking, massive, voluminous
boxcar, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, cavernous, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, gross, Himalayan, herculean, heroic (also heroical), huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monolithic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pharaonic, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast
abundant, ample, appreciable, bountiful, copious, generous, healthy, liberal, plenteous, plentiful
boundless, cosmic (also cosmical), immeasurable, incalculable, infinite
Synonym Discussion of little
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- a relatively small backyard
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- your pathetic little smile
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- diminutive bonsai plants
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- a minute amount of caffeine in the soda
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- tiny cracks formed in the painting
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- a dollhouse with miniature furnishings
little
Synonyms and Antonyms of little
- we had little more than we needed to survive in the wilderness
awful, awfully, beastly, considerably, deadly, especially, exceedingly (also exceeding), extensively, extra, extremely, far, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, jolly, mightily, mighty, mortally, most, much, particularly, rattling, real, right, significantly, so, something, substantially, super, terribly, too, very, whacking
- he's been studying very little for the bar exam
frequently, oft, often, oftentimes (or ofttimes)
little
Synonyms and Antonyms of little
- there's just a little of the pie left
abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth
bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus
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