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Common
adj
•
Small
in
size
.
•
Insignificant
,
trivial
.
🤬
Used to
belittle
a person.
•
Very
young
.
•
Younger
.
•
Used with the
name
of a
place
,
especially
of a
country
or its
capital
, to
denote
a
neighborhood
whose
residents
or
storekeepers
are from that
place
.
•
Having
few
members
.
•
Short
in
duration
;
brief
.
•
Small
in
extent
of
views
or
sympathies
;
narrow
;
shallow
;
contracted
;
mean
;
illiberal
;
ungenerous
.
noun
•
A
small
amount
.
•
In BDSM:
The
participant
in
ageplay
who
acts out
the
younger
role.
•
A
newly
initiated
member
of a
sorority
.
adv
•
Not much.
•
Not at all
.
det
•
Not much, only
a little
: only a
small
amount
(of).
pron
•
Not much; not a large
amount
.
name
•
A
surname
.
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Similar
base
scant
small
few
short
Related
li'l
wee
tiny
teeny
tad
lil
much
slight
trifle
minimal
ickle
bit
bitty
teensy
big
kind
less
thing
minor
modest
low
mite
poor
slightly
widdle
smidge
meager
nothing
many
high
bad
lot
smidgen
good
long
somewhat
well
teeny weeny
much less
very less
More
Opposite
massive
large
much
gigantic
big
Rhymes
it'll
pittle
little
Hittle
Bittle
skittle
brittle
spittle
whittle
victual
belittle
jot and tittle
Lineage
little
English
litel
Middle English (1100-1500)
lytel
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym
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