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1. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
   "a little dining room";
   - small
    
2. (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";
   - slight
    
3. (of children and animals) young, immature
   "what a big little boy you are";
   - small
    
4. (informal) small and of little importance
   "a little (or small) matter";
   - fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune [N. Amer], trivial, piddly
    
5. (of a voice) faint
   "a little voice";
   - small
    
6. Low in stature; not tall
   "a little man";
   - short
    
7. Lowercase
   "little a";
   - minuscule, small
    
8. 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"

1. Not much
   "he talked little about his family"

1. A small amount or duration
   "he accepted the little they gave him"

Derived forms: littler, littles, littlest

See also: atomic, bantam, bittie, bitty [N. Amer], chunky, compact, diminutive, DINK, dinky [Brit], dumpy, dwarfish, elfin, elflike, emotional, flyspeck, gnomish, half-length, half-size, heavyset, height, immature, infinitesimal, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, less, lesser, lilliputian, littler, low, lowercase, low-set, micro, microscopic, microscopical, midget, miniature, miniscule, minuscule, minute, olive-sized, petite, pint-size, pint-sized, pocketable, pocket-size, pocket-sized, puny, runty, sawed-off [N. Amer], sawn-off [Brit], short-stalked, shrimpy, size, slender, slim, small [archaic], smaller, smallish, small-scale, soft, squab, squabby, squat, squatty, stature, stocky, stumpy, subatomic, teensy, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny, teeny-weeny, thick, thickset, tiddly [Brit], tiny, titchy [Brit], undersize, undersized, unimportant, wee, weensy, weeny, young

Type of: small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity

Antonym: big, much

Encyclopedia: Little, George