What does Little mean?
Definitions for Little
ˈlɪt lLit·tle
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Little.
Princeton's WordNet
littleadjective
a small amount or duration
"he accepted the little they gave him"
small, littleadjective
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
"a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"
little(a), slightadjective
(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
"little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"
little, smalladjective
(of children and animals) young, immature
"what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivialadjective
(informal) small and of little importance
"a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
little, smalladjective
(of a voice) faint
"a little voice"; "a still small voice"
short, littleadjective
low in stature; not tall
"he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
little, minuscule, smalladjective
lowercase
"little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
littleadverb
small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
"a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation"
littleadverb
not much
"he talked little about his family"
Wiktionary
littleadverb
Not much.
littleadverb
Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
littleadjective
Small in size.
This is a little table.
littleadjective
Insignificant, trivial.
It's of little importance.
littleadjective
Very young.
littleadjective
Younger.
This is my little sister.
Webster Dictionary
Littleadjective
small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child
Etymology: [OE. litel, lutel, AS. ltel, ltel, lt; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. ltt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. ltzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lutn to deceive; cf. also Icel. ltill little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
Littleadjective
short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep
Etymology: [OE. litel, lutel, AS. ltel, ltel, lt; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. ltt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. ltzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lutn to deceive; cf. also Icel. ltill little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
Littleadjective
small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water
Etymology: [OE. litel, lutel, AS. ltel, ltel, lt; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. ltt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. ltzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lutn to deceive; cf. also Icel. ltill little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
Littleadjective
small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible
Etymology: [OE. litel, lutel, AS. ltel, ltel, lt; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. ltt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. ltzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lutn to deceive; cf. also Icel. ltill little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
Littleadjective
small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence
Etymology: [OE. litel, lutel, AS. ltel, ltel, lt; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. ltt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. ltzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lutn to deceive; cf. also Icel. ltill little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
Littleadjective
small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous
Etymology: [OE. litel, lutel, AS. ltel, ltel, lt; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. ltt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. ltzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lutn to deceive; cf. also Icel. ltill little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
Littlenoun
that which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like
Etymology: [OE. litel, lutel, AS. ltel, ltel, lt; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. ltt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. ltzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lutn to deceive; cf. also Icel. ltill little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
Littlenoun
a small degree or scale; miniature
Etymology: [OE. litel, lutel, AS. ltel, ltel, lt; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. ltt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. ltzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lutn to deceive; cf. also Icel. ltill little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
Littleadverb
in a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it
Etymology: [OE. litel, lutel, AS. ltel, ltel, lt; akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. ltt, OHG. luzzil, MHG. ltzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, Goth. liuts deceitful, lutn to deceive; cf. also Icel. ltill little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth. leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
Freebase
Little
The Little was an automobile built in Flint, Michigan by the Little Motor Car Company from 1912-15. The Little first was available as a two-seater with a four-cylinder 20 hp engine, and had a wheelbase of 7 ft 7 in . In 1914 a 3.6 L six-cylinder L-head engine was available in a later model that had a larger chassis. This was phased out in 1915 as it was too close in size and price to the Chevrolet Six. Durant merged the Little Company and Chevrolet in 1913, gave the Chevrolet name to the Little car and moved manufacturing from the Detroit plant to Flint.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Little
lit′l, adj. (comp. Less; superl. Least) small in quantity or extent: weak, poor: brief.—n. that which is small in quantity or extent: a small space.—adv. in a small quantity or degree: not much.—ns. Litt′le-ease, discomfort, misery: a form of punishment, as the stocks; Litt′le-end′ian, one of the Lilliputian party who opposed the Big-endians, maintaining that boiled eggs should be cracked at the little end; Litt′le-go (see Go); Litt′leness; Litt′le-off′ice, a short service of psalms, hymns, collects, &c.—adj. Litt′leworth, worthless.—By little and little, by degrees; In little, on a small scale; Not a little, considerably. [A.S. lýtel.]
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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Little' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #337
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Little' in Written Corpus Frequency: #176
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Little' in Adverbs Frequency: #187
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Little' in Adjectives Frequency: #21
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Little in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Little in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Little in a Sentence
While you're in it, life seems epic. Fiery, tenuous, and unpredictable. But once you have some distance from it, everything seems to shrink, until it's almost out of focus. So you begin scanning your life looking for something interesting or beautiful. But all you see is ordinary people assembled in their tiny classrooms and workspaces, each of us moving around in little steps, like tokens on a game board.
The market is a little hesitant after a very strong day in response to some earnings that were taken quite positively.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.
I said' Hey, Houston, I've got World Series-winning in my window,' and World Series-winning is about the size of your thumbnail if you hold World Series-winning out arm's length in front of you. The whole focus of your attention goes into this little thing out there. It's in a black void, which makes its colors even more impressive. Primarily, you get the blue of the oceans, the white of the clouds, you get a little streak of tan that we call continents, but they're not that noticeable. It just looks glorious.
He was always at other people's events. He was always shooting music videos, it makes me a little bit sad that we weren't able to see all that he could have done.
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Translations for Little
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- قليلArabic
- máloCzech
- lilleDanish
- wenigGerman
- λίγοGreek
- malmulteEsperanto
- pocoSpanish
- مقدار کمیPersian
- vähänFinnish
- peuFrench
- beagIrish
- थोड़ाHindi
- kisHungarian
- քիչArmenian
- sedikitIndonesian
- piccoloItalian
- קְצָתHebrew
- 少しJapanese
- ಸ್ವಲ್ಪKannada
- 작은Korean
- modicumLatin
- weinigDutch
- litenNorwegian
- małoPolish
- poucoPortuguese
- puținRomanian
- маленькийRussian
- litenSwedish
- சிறியTamil
- కొద్దిగాTelugu
- เล็กน้อยThai
- küçükTurkish
- малоUkrainian
- تھوڑاUrdu
- ביסלYiddish
- 小Chinese
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