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Synonyms & Antonyms of mite
1
a very small sum of money
- I have only a mite left to buy lunch for the rest of the week
Synonyms for mite
- chicken feed
- [slang],
- chump change,
- dime,
- hay,
- peanuts,
- pin money,
- pittance,
- shoestring,
- song,
- two cents
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2
a living thing much smaller than others of its kind
- the kitten was just a mite, hardly the size of my palm
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3
a very small amount
- that speech didn't make a mite of sense
Synonyms for mite
- ace,
- bit,
- crumb,
- dab,
- dram,
- driblet,
- glimmer,
- hint,
- lick,
- little,
- 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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Near Antonyms for mite
- 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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The first known use of mite was before the 12th century
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