Synonyms of mote

mote

noun

ˈmōt 

as in speck

a very small piece

there's not a mote of dirt in that woman's house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speck
• particle
• fleck
• bit
• grain
• patch
• scrap
• snippet
• shred
• mouthful
• sliver
• molecule
• atom
• crumb
• granule
• lick
• dribble
• scruple
• morsel
• fragment
• nugget
• tittle
• drop
• bite
• whisper
• snip
• flyspeck
• trace
• whit
• fraction
• dash
• nubbin
• portion
• shard
• pinch
• touch
• section
• ounce
• mite
• modicum
• jot
• splinter
• minim
• taste
• iota
• streak
• nibble
• dab
• suspicion
• smidgen
• nutshell
• halfpenny
• spot
• strain
• kenning
• smidgeon
• smidgin
• part
• flake
• smatter
• smidge
• chip
• tidbit
• ace
• ha'penny
• haet
• clipping
• driblet
• titbit
• shiver
• shaving
• paring
• smithereens

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slab
• chunk
• lump
• quantity
• mass
• abundance
• pile
• gob
• mountain
• loads
• wealth
• hunk
• pot
• stack
• volume
• bucket
• deal
• bushel
• barrel
• heaps
• raft
• profusion
• peck
• wad
• scads

Examples of mote in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And jab your holy finger at my mote? —Eric Chevlen, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020

Humans sitting on a tiny little mote of a planet in a hostile void worked collaboratively over many years to create incredible instruments capable of gathering photons of light emitted from a nebula 5,500 years ago. —Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2016

The world’s smallest battery is smaller than a dust mote. —Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Mar. 2022

How lonely, and how far away everything is compared to that mote of dust. —NBC News, 22 July 2021