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Synonyms & Antonyms of little
(Entry 1 of 3)
- there was a little hedge separating the two lawns
Synonyms for little
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- diminutive,
- half-pint,
- pint-size
- (or pint-sized),
- pocket,
- pocket-size
- (also pocket-sized),
- pygmy,
- small,
- smallish
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- there were just a few little details left to take care of
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Antonyms for little
- little-minded people who dislike the fact that human society is always progressing
Synonyms for little
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- dogmatic
- (also dogmatical),
- opinionated,
- opinionative
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- let's take a little pause to relax
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Antonyms for little
- 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
Synonyms for little
- 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)
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- 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
- bite-size
- (also bite-sized),
- capsule
Near Antonyms for little
- 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
- boundless,
- cosmic
- (also cosmical),
- immeasurable,
- incalculable,
- infinite
Antonyms for little
little
adverbSynonyms & Antonyms of little (Entry 2 of 3)
- we had little more than we needed to survive in the wilderness
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- 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
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- frequently,
- oft,
- often,
- oftentimes
- (or ofttimes)
little
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of little (Entry 3 of 3)
- there's just a little of the pie left
Synonyms for little
- ace,
- bit,
- crumb,
- dab,
- dram,
- driblet,
- glimmer,
- hint,
- lick,
- mite,
- nip,
- ounce,
- particle,
- peanuts,
- ray,
- scintilla,
- scruple,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shred,
- skosh,
- smack,
- smell,
- smidgen
- (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge),
- snap,
- soupçon,
- spark,
- spatter,
- speck,
- splash,
- spot,
- sprinkling,
- strain,
- streak,
- suspicion,
- tad,
- touch,
- trace
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- 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
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“Little.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/little. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of little was before the 12th century
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