Tra từ little - Từ điển WordNet v3.1

I - noun

a small amount or duration (Freq. 12)
- he accepted the little they gave him
• Hypernyms:
small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount

II - adjective

1. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent (Freq. 163)
- a little dining room
- a little house
- a small car
- a little (or small) group
• Syn:
small
• Ant:
big, large (for: small)
• Similar to:
atomic, subatomic, bantam, diminutive, lilliputian,
midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck, bitty, bittie,
teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy,
teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy, dinky, dwarfish,
elfin, elflike, gnomish, half-size, infinitesimal, minute,
lesser, microscopic, microscopical, micro, miniature, minuscule,
miniscule, olive-sized, pocket-size, pocket-sized, pocketable, puny,
runty, shrimpy, slender, slim, smaller, littler,
smallish, small-scale, undersize, undersized
• Derivationally related forms:
littleness, smallness (for: small)
• Attrubites:
size
2. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree;
not much or almost none or (with 'a') at least some (Freq. 71)
- 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
• Syn:
slight
• Ant:
much
• Similar to:
small
• See Also:
less
3. (of children and animals) young, immature (Freq. 12)
- what a big little boy you are
- small children
• Syn:
small
• Similar to:
young, immature
4. (informal) small and of little importance (Freq. 8)
- 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
• Syn:
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, piddling,
piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
• Similar to:
unimportant
• Derivationally related forms:
trivialize (for: trivial), trivia (for: trivial), triviality (for: trivial), pettiness (for: petty), littleness
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
5. (of a voice) faint (Freq. 3)
- a little voice
- a still small voice
• Syn:
small
• Similar to:
soft
• Derivationally related forms:
smallness (for: small), littleness
6. low in stature;
not tall
- he was short and stocky
- short in stature
- a short smokestack
- a little man
• Syn:
short
• Ant:
tall (for: short)
• Similar to:
chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty,
stumpy, compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset,
half-length, pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off,
short-stalked, squab, squabby
• See Also:
low
• Derivationally related forms:
shortness (for: short)
• Attrubites:
stature, height
7. lowercase
- little a
- small a
- e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
• Syn:
minuscule, small
• Similar to:
lowercase
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
• Similar to:
emotional

III - adverb

not much (Freq. 16)
- he talked little about his family