Synonyms of the word

little

• adj. Small in size.
• adj. Insignificant, trivial.
• adj. Very young.
• adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
• adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers…
• adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
• adj. Short in duration; brief.
• adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
• adv. Not much.
• adv. Not at all.

bantam

• n. any of several small chickens, especially one that is a miniature version of another.
• n. (sports) an age division between peewee and midget.
• adj. small or miniature.
• adj. spirited or aggressive.

bittie

• n. (slang, often plural) bitch, girl, woman, especially one that is promiscuous.
• adj. Alternative form of bitty (“very small”).

bitty

• adj. Containing bits; fragmented.
• adj. Very small.
• n. Alternative form of bittie.

brief

• adj. Of short duration; happening quickly.
• adj. Concise; taking few words.
• adj. Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
• adj. (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.
• n. (law) A writ summoning one to answer to any action.
• n. (law) An answer to any action.
• n. (law) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
• n. (by extension, figuratively) A position of interest or advocacy.
• n. (law) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
• n. (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the…
• n. (informal) A short news story or report.
• n. (obsolete) A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract.
• n. (Britain, historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution…
• n. (slang) A ticket of any type.
• v. (transitive) To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
• v. (transitive, law) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
• adv. (obsolete, poetic) Briefly.
• adv. (obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly.

diminutive

• adj. Very small.
• adj. Serving to diminish.
• adj. (grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
• n. (grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

dinky

• adj. (informal, Britain) Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
• adj. (informal, US) Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable.
• acr. Double income, no kids yet. Said of a relationship.

dwarfish

• adj. Like a dwarf; being especially small.
• adj. Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.

elfin

• n. An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land.
• n. A little urchin or child.
• adj. Relating to or resembling an elf, especially in its tiny size or features.

elflike

• adj. Resembling an elf or some aspect of one.

emotional

• adj. Of or relating to the emotions.
• adj. Characterised by emotion.
• adj. Determined by emotion rather than reason.
• adj. Appealing to or arousing emotion.
• adj. Easily affected by emotion.
• adj. Readily displaying emotion.

fiddling

• v. present participle of fiddle.
• n. action of the verb to fiddle.
• adj. Of petty or trivial importance; footling.

flyspeck

• n. Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.
• n. (by extension) Anything tiny or insignificant.
• v. To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color.
• v. To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.

footling

• adj. Trivial; unimportant; useless; silly; inept; irritating.
• v. present participle of footle.
• n. A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth.

gnomish

• adj. resembling a gnome; gnomelike.
• adj. aphoristic.

immature

• adj. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
• adj. Childish in behavior, not mature.
• n. An immature member of a species.

infinitesimal

• adj. Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.
• adj. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit.
• adj. (informal) Very small.
• n. (mathematics) A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it…

itsy-bitsy

• adj. (colloquial, often childish or humorous) Very small; minuscule.

itty-bitty

• adj. Alternative form of itsy-bitsy.

less

• adv. To a smaller extent.
• adv. In lower degree.
• adj. (now archaic except with numbers) comparative form of little: more little; smaller.
• adj. A smaller amount (of); not as much.
• adj. (proscribed) A smaller number of; fewer.
• prep. Minus; not including.
• v. (obsolete) To make less; to lessen.
• conj. (obsolete) unless.

lesser

• adj. comparative form of little: more little.
• adj. of two things, the smaller in size, value, importance etc.
• n. a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.

lilliputian

• n. A very small person or being.
• adj. Very small, diminutive.
• adj. Trivial, petty.

littler

• adj. comparative form of little: more little.

lowercase

• n. Alternative spelling of lower case.
• adj. in lower case.
• v. (transitive) To convert (text) to lower case.

micro

• adj. Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
• n. (computing, dated) short form of microcomputer.
• n. (gaming slang) micromanagement.
• v. (gaming slang) to micromanage.

microscopic

• adj. Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal.
• adj. So small that it can only be seen using a microscope.
• adj. Very small; minute.
• adj. Carried out with great attention to detail.
• adj. Able to see extremely minute objects.

midget

• n. (originally) A little sandfly.
• n. (loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge.
• n. A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than…
• n. (sometimes derogatory) Any short person.
• n. (attributively) That is a small version of something; miniature.

miniature

• n. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
• n. A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
• n. A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
• n. The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
• n. An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
• n. A musical composition which is short in duration.
• n. (role-playing games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
• n. Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
• n. A particular feature or trait.
• adj. Smaller than normal.
• v. (transitive) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.

miniscule

• adj. Misspelling of minuscule.

minuscule

• n. A lower-case letter.
• n. Any of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
• n. A letter in these styles.
• adj. Written in minuscules, lower-case.
• adj. Written in minuscule handwriting style.
• adj. Very small, tiny.

minute

• n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
• n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
• n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
• n. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
• n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent…
• n. A point in time; a moment.
• n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
• n. An old coin, a half farthing.
• n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
• n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
• n. (slang, US, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
• v. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
• v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
• adj. Very small.
• adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

niggling

• v. present participle of niggle.
• adj. petty.
• n. A sensation that niggles.

petite

• adj. Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
• adj. Of women's clothing: of small size.
• adj. Small, little; insignificant; petty.

petty

• adj. (obsolete except in set phrases) Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
• adj. Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
• adj. Narrow-minded, small-minded.
• n. (usually in the plural, obsolete) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
• n. (now historical) A class or school for young schoolboys.
• n. (dialect, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

picayune

• adj. Petty, trivial; of little consequence; small and of little importance; picayunish;.
• adj. Small-minded: being childishly spiteful, tending to go on about unimportant things.
• n. (US, especially Louisiana, archaic) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents; a fippenny bit.
• n. (archaic) A five-cent piece.
• n. Something of very little value; a trifle.
• n. An argument, fact, corner case, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger…

piddling

• adj. Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
• v. present participle of piddle.

piffling

• v. present participle of piffle.
• adj. unimportant.

pocket-size

• adj. Alternative spelling of pocket-sized.

pocket-sized

• adj. small enough to fit into a pocket.
• adj. (idiomatic) small-scale, downsized.

pocketable

• adj. Able to be put in one's pocket.

puny

• n. (obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
• n. (obsolete) A younger person.
• n. (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
• n. (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
• adj. Of inferior size, strength or significance.

runty

• adj. Having the characteristics of a runt; small and stunted.
• adj. diminutive.

short

• adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
• adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
• adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
• adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
• adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
• adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
• adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
• adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
• adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
• adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
• adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
• adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
• adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
• adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
• adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
• adv. Unawares.
• adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
• adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
• adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
• n. A short circuit.
• n. A short film.
• n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
• n. (baseball) A shortstop.
• n. (finance) A short seller.
• n. (finance) A short sale.
• n. A summary account.
• n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
• n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
• v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
• v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
• v. (transitive) To shortchange.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
• v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
• v. (obsolete) To shorten.
• prep. Deficient in.
• prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

shrimpy

• adj. Resembling shrimp; shrimplike.

slender

• adj. Thin; slim.
• adj. (figuratively) meagre; deficient.
• adj. (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

slight

• adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak,; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant;…
• adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
• adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
• adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
• adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as, goods).
• v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
• v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
• v. To act negligently or carelessly.
• v. (military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
• v. To make even or level.
• v. To throw heedlessly.
• n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
• n. (obsolete) Sleight.

slim

• adj. Slender, thin.
• adj. (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
• adj. (rural, Northern England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
• adj. (South Africa) Sly, crafty.
• n. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
• n. (East Africa, uncountable) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
• v. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.

small

• adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
• adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
• adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
• adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
• adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
• adv. In a small fashion.
• adv. In or into small pieces.
• adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
• n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
• v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

small-scale

• adj. Having a modest scope or extent.
• adj. Drawn or constructed at a small size, without much detail.

smaller

• adj. comparative form of small: more small.
• adv. comparative form of small: more small.

smallish

• adj. Somewhat small.

soft

• adj. Easily giving way under pressure.
• adj. (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
• adj. (of a sound) Quiet.
• adj. Gentle.
• adj. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
• adj. Gentle in action or motion; easy.
• adj. Weak in character; impressible.
• adj. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
• adj. Not bright or intense.
• adj. Having a slight angle from straight.
• adj. (linguistics) Voiced; sonant.
• adj. (linguistics, rare) voiceless.
• adj. (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized.
• adj. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
• adj. (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Foolish.
• adj. (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external…
• adj. (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
• adj. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
• adj. (Britain, of a man) Effeminate.
• adj. Agreeable to the senses.
• adj. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
• interj. (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
• adv. (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
• n. A soft or foolish person; an idiot.

teensy

• adj. (childish, informal) tiny.

teensy-weensy

• adj. (colloquial, often childish or humorous) Alternative form of teeny-weeny.

teentsy

• adj. Alternative form of teensy.

teeny

• adj. (informal) Very small; tiny.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) fretful; peevish; cross.

teeny-weeny

• adj. (colloquial, often childish or humorous) Very small; tiny; minuscule.

tiny

• adj. Very small.
• n. A small child; an infant.
• n. Anything very small.

trivial

• adj. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
• adj. Commonplace, ordinary.
• adj. Concerned with or involving trivia.
• adj. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
• adj. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
• adj. (mathematics) Self-evident.
• adj. Pertaining to the trivium.
• adj. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
• n. (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

undersize

• adj. Smaller than normal, undersized.
• adj. Smaller than appropriate, expected or sufficient.
• adj. Small enough to fit through a screen.

undersized

• adj. below the usual or expected size.

unimportant

• adj. petty; not important or noteworthy.

wee

• adj. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) urine.
• n. (colloquial) An act of urination.
• v. (colloquial) To urinate.
• pron. obsolete emphatic of we.

weensy

• adj. weeny or tiny; very small.

weeny

• adj. Minuscule.
• n. A wiener, a hot dog.
• n. (slang) A penis, from the resemblance to a wiener, sometimes thought of as small by influence from teeny…

young

• adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
• adj. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
• adj. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
• adj. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
• adj. (of a decade of life) Early.
• adj. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
• adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
• adj. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
• n. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
• n. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
• n. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
• v. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
• v. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
• v. (geology) To exhibit younging.