Search results for 'little':

little adj (littler, littlest) (often having connotations of affection or another emotion and used instead of the more formal small) 1 small in size, extent or amount. 2 young; younger • a little girl • her little brother. 3 small in importance • a little mishap. 4 trivial • a little misunderstanding. 5 petty • a little disagreement. 6 used as a way of detracting from a potentially disparaging implication: not troublesome • funny little ways. 7 small-minded or mean • He's a little liar. adverb (comparative less, superlative least) not much or at all • They little understood the implications. pronoun not much • little to be gained from that course of action. a little (with a noun such as bit, while, way understood but not expressed) 1 a small amount • do a little to help out. 2 a short time • He'll be here in a little. 3 a short distance • down the road a little. 4 a small degree or extent • run around a little to keep warm. little by little gradually; by degrees. make little of something 1 to treat it as unimportant or trivial. 2 to understand only a little of it. think little of something or someone to have a low opinion of it or them; to disapprove of it or them. not a little very • He was not a little upset. See also less, lesser, least.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon lytel.

little adj (littler, littlest) (often having connotations of affection or another emotion and used instead of the more formal small) 1 small in size, extent or amount. 2 young; younger • a little girl • her little brother. 3 small in importance • a little mishap. 4 trivial • a little misunderstanding. 5 petty • a little disagreement. 6 used as a way of detracting from a potentially disparaging implication: not troublesome • funny little ways. 7 small-minded or mean • He's a little liar. adverb (comparative less, superlative least) not much or at all • They little understood the implications. pronoun not much • little to be gained from that course of action. a little (with a noun such as bit, while, way understood but not expressed) 1 a small amount • do a little to help out. 2 a short time • He'll be here in a little. 3 a short distance • down the road a little. 4 a small degree or extent • run around a little to keep warm. little by little gradually; by degrees. make little of something 1 to treat it as unimportant or trivial. 2 to understand only a little of it. think little of something or someone to have a low opinion of it or them; to disapprove of it or them. not a little very • He was not a little upset. See also less, lesser, least.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon lytel.

little adj (littler, littlest) (often having connotations of affection or another emotion and used instead of the more formal small) 1 small in size, extent or amount. 2 young; younger • a little girl • her little brother. 3 small in importance • a little mishap. 4 trivial • a little misunderstanding. 5 petty • a little disagreement. 6 used as a way of detracting from a potentially disparaging implication: not troublesome • funny little ways. 7 small-minded or mean • He's a little liar. adverb (comparative less, superlative least) not much or at all • They little understood the implications. pronoun not much • little to be gained from that course of action. a little (with a noun such as bit, while, way understood but not expressed) 1 a small amount • do a little to help out. 2 a short time • He'll be here in a little. 3 a short distance • down the road a little. 4 a small degree or extent • run around a little to keep warm. little by little gradually; by degrees. make little of something 1 to treat it as unimportant or trivial. 2 to understand only a little of it. think little of something or someone to have a low opinion of it or them; to disapprove of it or them. not a little very • He was not a little upset. See also less, lesser, least.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon lytel.