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littleadjective having relatively little heightthere was a little hedge separating the two lawns low, low-lying, low-slung, sawed-off, short dwarf, dwarfishcompact, petite, slightdiminutive, half-pint, pint-size(or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size(also pocket-sized), pygmy, small, smallishbantam, bitty, dinky, mini, miniature, minimized, minute, puny, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, undersized(also undersize), weedumpy, flat, scrubby, squat, squatty, stubby, stumpy, stunted altitudinous, high, lofty, tall, towering elevated, lifted, raised, uplifted, upswepthigh-rise, statuesquegangling, gangly, lanky, rangybig, bulky, hefty, hulking, large, largish, outsize(also outsized), oversize(or oversized), sizable(or sizeable), voluminous lacking importancethere were just a few little details left to take care of fiddling, foolish, frivolous, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, Mickey Mouse, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, slight, small, small-fry, trifling, trivial, unimportant jerkwater, one-horsenickel-and-dime, paltry, petty, small-time, worthlessanonymous, nameless, obscure, uncelebrated, unknown neither here nor there big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, unfrivolous, weighty decisive, fatal, fatefulchief, dominant, overbearing, overmastering, overriding, principaldistinctive, exceptional, impressive, outstanding, prominent, remarkablevaluable, worthwhile, worthydistinguished, eminent, great, illustrious, preeminent, prestigiousfamous, notorious, renownedall-important, basic, essential, fundamental, key not broad or open in views or opinionslittle-minded people who dislike the fact that human society is always progressing illiberal, insular, Lilliputian, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, petty, picayune, provincial, sectarian, small, small-minded inflexible, ironbound, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, set, stubborn, unyielding, wrongheadedbigoted, intolerantbiased, discriminating, discriminatory, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudicedbrass bound, hidebound, old-fashioned, reactionary, stodgy, straitlaced(or straightlaced), stuffydogmatic(also dogmatical), opinionated, opinionativelimitedhick, unsophisticated broad-minded, catholic, cosmopolitan, liberal, open, open-minded, receptive, tolerant impartial, nonpartisan, objective, unbiased, unprejudicedfreethinking not lasting for a considerable timelet's take a little pause to relax brief, fast, short shortishabbreviated, abridged, curtailed, cut-back, shortened, syncopatedcompact, condensedabrupt, suddenephemeral, fleeting, momentary, short-lived, transient, transitoryimpermanentcompendious, concise, crisp, epigrammatic, laconic, pithy, succinct, summary, terseshort-range, short-term extended, far, great, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out(or long-drawn), long-lived endless, everlasting, interminable, persistent, unendinglongish, overlong, prolonged, protractedpermanentenlarged, expanded, supplementedlong-range, long-term of a size that is less than averagethe petting zoo has a little horse in addition to all of the goats and sheep bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, fine, half-pint, Lilliputian, pint-size(or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size(also pocket-sized), puny, pygmy, shrimpy, slight, small, smallish, subnormal, toylike, undersized(also undersize) dwarf, toyruntish, runty, scrubby, stuntedbitty, inappreciable, infinitesimal, little bitty, micro, microscopic(also microscopical), mini, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minim, minuscule, minute, pinpoint, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee, weeny(also weensy)meager(or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stingydeficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wantingbite-size(also bite-sized), capsule big, biggish, considerable, goodly, grand, great, handsome, husky, king-size(or king-sized), large, largish, outsize(also outsized), overscale(or overscaled), oversize(or oversized), sizable(or sizeable), substantial, tidy, whacking, whopping bulky, hefty, hulking, massive, voluminousboxcar, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, cavernous, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, gross, Himalayan, herculean, heroic(also heroical), huge, humongous(also humungous), immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monolithic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pharaonic, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vastabundant, ample, appreciable, bountiful, copious, generous, healthy, liberal, plenteous, plentifulfat, thickbroad, wideboundless, cosmic(also cosmical), immeasurable, incalculable, infiniteadequate, enough, sufficient in a very small quantity or degreewe had little more than we needed to survive in the wilderness negligibly, nominally, slightly meagerly, scantilybarely, hardly, just, marginally, minimally, scarcely a bit, a trifle awful, awfully, beastly, considerably, deadly, especially, exceedingly(also exceeding), extensively, extra, extremely, far, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, jolly, mightily, mighty, mortally, most, much, particularly, rattling, real, right, significantly, so, something, substantially, super, terribly, too, very, whacking completely, entirely, purely, thoroughly, totally, utterlyeminently, exceptionallyappreciably, discernibly, noticeably, palpablyabundantly, plentifullygenerously, handsomely, liberallyastronomically, grandly, hugely, monstrously, monumentally not oftenhe's been studying very little for the bar exam infrequently, rarely, seldom ne'er, neverepisodically, irregularly, now and then, occasionally, sometimes, sporadically once in a blue moon frequently, oft, often, oftentimes(or ofttimes) customarily, generally, habitually, ordinarily, routinely, usuallyalways, constantly, continually, continuously, endlessly, eternally, ever, everlastingly, evermore, forever, invariably, perennially, perpetually, unceasinglychronically, recurrently, repeatedly a very small amountthere's just a little of the pie left ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smack, smell, smidgen(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), snap, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, splash, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, touch, trace hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whitatom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrapdash, drop, pinchpart, portion, sectionbite, nibble, tastehandful, scattering, smatter, smatteringdose, shotchip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splintertatterclipping, paring, shaving drop in the bucket abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealthvolumebonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surpluschunk, hunk, lump, slab adj.small, little, diminutive, minute, tiny, miniature mean noticeably below average in size.small and little are often interchangeable, but small applies more to relative size determined by capacity, value, number.a relatively small backyard little is more absolute in implication often carrying the idea of petiteness, pettiness, insignificance, or immaturity.your pathetic little smile diminutive implies abnormal smallness.diminutive bonsai plants minute implies extreme smallness.a minute amount of caffeine in the soda tiny is an informal equivalent to minute.tiny cracks formed in the painting miniature applies to an exactly proportioned reproduction on a very small scale.a dollhouse with miniature furnishings before the 12th 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