单词 | little |
例句 | little adjective 1.•a little writing desk:small, small-scale, compact | mini, miniature, tiny, minute, minuscule | toy, baby, pocket, undersized, dwarf, midget, wee | informal teeny-weeny, teensy-weensy, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, little-bitty, half-pint, vest-pocket, li'l, micro. ANT big, large. 2.•a little man:short, small, slight, petite, diminutive, tiny | elfin, dwarfish, midget, pygmy, Lilliputian | informal teeny-weeny, pint-sized, peewee. ANT big, large. 3.•my little sister:young, younger, junior, small, baby, infant. ANT big, elder. 4.•I was a bodyguard for a little while:brief, short, short-lived | fleeting, momentary, transitory, transient | fast, quick, hasty, cursory. ANT long. 5.•a few little problems:minor, unimportant, insignificant, trivial, trifling, petty, paltry, inconsequential, nugatory | informal dinky, piddling. ANT important, significant. 6.•they have little political influence:hardly any, not much, slight, scant, limited, restricted, modest, little or/to no, minimal, negligible. ANT considerable. 7.•you little sneak:contemptible, mean, spiteful, petty, small-minded.▶adverb 1.•he is little known as a singer|•they little thought:hardly, barely, scarcely, not much, not at all, slightly, only slightly. ANT well. 2.•his art has been little seen in Canada:rarely, seldom, infrequently, hardly, hardly ever, scarcely, scarcely ever, not much. ANT often. PHRASES a little 1.•add a little vinegar:some, a small amount of, a bit of, a touch of, a soupçon of, a dash of, a taste of, a spot of | a shade of, a suggestion of, a trace of, a hint of, a suspicion of | a dribble of, a splash of, a pinch of, a sprinkling of, a speck of | informal a smidgen of, a tad of. 2.•after a little, Oliver came in:a short time, a little while, a bit, an interval, a short period | a minute, a moment, a second, an instant | informal a sec, a mo, a jiffy. 3.•this reminds me a little of the Adriatic:slightly, faintly, remotely, vaguely | somewhat, a little bit, to some degree. little by little •little by little, the house fell into disrepair:gradually, slowly, by degrees, by stages, step by step, bit by bit, progressively | subtly, imperceptibly. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See |
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