Synonyms of soupçon

soupçon

noun

süp-ˈsōⁿ 

as in sprinkling

a very small amount

the book is filled with cynicism and sarcasm, along with a soupçon of existentialist angst

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sprinkling
• hint
• glimmer
• splash
• shred
• speck
• bit
• touch
• little
• tad
• lick
• smidgen
• dab
• trace
• spark
• scintilla
• particle
• ounce
• suspicion
• handful
• pinch
• sliver
• ray
• smell
• smack
• dash
• spatter
• streak
• fleck
• crumb
• scruple
• dram
• peanuts
• dose
• skosh
• minimum
• strain
• shade
• mite
• modicum
• nip
• bite
• ace
• portion
• drop in the bucket
• driblet
• spot
• shadow
• taste
• drop
• grain
• vestige
• iota
• semblance
• syllable
• molecule
• snap
• whit
• part
• smattering
• atom
• minim
• mote
• dot
• nibble
• jot
• patch
• fragment
• morsel
• granule
• section
• tittle
• scattering
• scrap
• hoot
• flyspeck
• nubbin
• flake
• splinter
• smatter
• shiver
• shard
• shaving
• chip
• tatter
• clipping
• paring
• smithereens
• shot

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• quantity
• abundance
• wealth
• loads
• pile
• mass
• plenty
• lot
• mountain
• bucket
• bushel
• profusion
• deal
• fistful
• barrel
• stack
• bundle
• heaps
• raft
• mess
• volume
• excess
• lashings
• peck
• wad
• reams
• gobs
• surplus
• boatload
• oodles
• passel
• embarrassment
• scads
• surfeit
• potful
• overabundance
• superfluity
• overflow
• superabundance
• much
• bonanza
• slab
• oversupply
• chunk
• lump
• overage
• hunk
• overkill
• overmuch

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of soupçon

This wouldn’t be a Reacher adventure without a soupçon of sadism. — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026

The Enneagram is a personality system, with a soupçon of woo-woo, that divides people into nine types. — Jennifer Noyes, Air Mail, 20 June 2026

Black comedy is among the hardest tones to nail, and if there was a single knowing wink from the actors or even a soupçon of exaggeration in the execution, the whole thing could simply become too tiresomely antic to be actually funny. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026

The sweet satirical soupçon, now at the Nederlander Theatre, extends Apple TV’s tribute to the optimistic pleasures of the art form to its mother source. — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026

Early on, matter in the cosmos was almost entirely hydrogen and helium (with only a soupçon of heavier elements such as lithium). — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026

Luckily for those of us who crave just a soupçon of screen time at Thanksgiving, there’s plenty of fare to amuse yourself with at home or in theaters this holiday weekend. — Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025

Calabrian chile added a soupçon of heat. — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2024

Clearly, there’s more than a soupcon of autobiography mixed into this novel. — Washington Post, 3 May 2022

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