ENGLISH: little - CREOLE: enpe



Overview of noun little



The noun little has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (12) little -- (a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him")



Overview of adj little



The adj little has 8 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)



1. (165) small, little -- (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")

2. (71) little -- ((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 hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained")

3. (19) brief, little -- (of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away")

4. (12) little, small -- ((of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children")

5. (8) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial -- ((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")

6. (3) little, small -- ((of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice")

7. little, minuscule, small -- (lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters")

8. little -- (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")



Overview of adv little



The adv little has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (16) little -- (not much; "he talked little about his family")

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