littler Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite small or little relative to something else
smaller.
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adjective limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
small; little.
- a little dining room
- a little house
- a small car
- a little (or small) group
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adjective (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
little; slight.
- 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
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adjective satellite (of children and animals) young, immature
small; little.
- what a big little boy you are
- small children
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adjective satellite (informal) small and of little importance
little; petty; footling; piffling; niggling; trivial; piddling; fiddling; picayune; lilliputian.
- 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
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adjective satellite (of a voice) faint
small; little.
- a little voice
- a still small voice
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adjective low in stature; not tall
little; short.
- he was short and stocky
- short in stature
- a short smokestack
- a little man
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adjective satellite lowercase
small; little; minuscule.
- little a
- small a
- e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
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adjective satellite small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
little.
- 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
