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little
adjective as in small in size, amount
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bantam, brief, diminutive, dinky, infant, infinitesimal, junior, light, Lilliputian, mini, miniature, minute, peanut, petite, short, snub, toy, wee, young
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babyish, cramped, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hardly any, hasty, immature, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, microscopic, not big, not large, short-lived, shrimpy, shriveled, skimpy, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, truncated, undersized, undeveloped, wizened
adjective as in not important
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casual, inconsiderable, insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, unimportant
adjective as in narrow-minded
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bigoted, cheap, contemptible, hidebound, illiberal, ineffectual, paltry, self-centered, selfish, small-minded, vulgar, wicked
adverb as in infrequently, not much
Example Sentences
He brooded over the dwindling supplies of clean water and that too many people were competing for too little of it.
So drawing scheme into "megafunds" will make little, or no, difference to what they receive.
By the next decade, Japanese flower farmers were growing them across the Southland; the species was able to survive on little water and stretched up to five feet tall.
“Zach Bryan in a little weird way sounds a bit like Post when he’s unencumbered by a lot of production.”
Buffalo’s a little more banged up than most.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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