little

Adjective

• 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
    

• lowercase
  • little a
    
  • small a
    
  • e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
    

• low in stature; not tall
  • he was short and stocky
    
  • short in stature
    
  • a short smokestack
    
  • a little man
    

• (of a voice) faint
  • a little voice
    
  • a still small voice
    

• (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
    

• (of children and animals) young, immature
  • what a big little boy you are
    
  • small children
    

• (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
    

• 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
    

Adverb

• not much
  • he talked little about his family
    

Noun

• a small amount or duration
  • he accepted the little they gave him
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  minuscule , small , short , little(a) , slight
• Antonyms: 
  tall , much(a) , large , big