little

little is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as adjective, noun, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.
3. adjective. Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water.
4. adjective. Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible.
5. adjective. Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence.
6. adjective. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
7. noun. That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like.
8. noun. A small degree or scale; miniature.
9. adverb. In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.
10. noun. a small amount or duration

    "he accepted the little they gave him"

11. 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"

12. adjective. (informal) small and of little importance

    "a fiddling sum of money"

    "a footling gesture"

    Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial

13. adjective. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

    "a little dining room"

    "a little house"

    Synonyms: small

14. adjective. (of a voice) faint

    "a little voice"

    "a still small voice"

    Synonyms: small

15. adjective. lowercase

    "little a"

    "small a"

    Synonyms: minuscule, small

16. adjective. (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"

    Synonyms: slight

17. adjective. (of children and animals) young, immature

    "what a big little boy you are"

    "small children"

    Synonyms: small

18. adjective. low in stature; not tall

    "he was short and stocky"

    "short in stature"

    Synonyms: short

19. adverb. not much

    "he talked little about his family"

Synonyms

fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial, small, minuscule, slight, short

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in little:

tillet

Common word forms

littler, littles, littlest, littling, littleness

Words from these letters

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