Small in size or amount: The meaning of little is not big. You can use 'so', 'too', and 'very' in front of little.
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A small amount of food or drink: How to use little in a sentence. The oed says of the word little:
If you live in a little cottage, it means your house is very small, and quite possibly adorable.
Anything small, brief, young, or unimportant can be described as little. A small quantity or amount: I had little money and little free time. You use little to indicate that there is only a very small amount of something.
Little and few have negative meanings. the adjective has no recognized mode of comparison. 1 little / ˈ lɪtl̟/ adjective less / ˈlɛs/ or lesser / ˈlɛsɚ/ also littler / ˈlɪtl̟ɚ/ ; See examples of little used in a sentence.
A little down the road;
Something much less than all: A present that is not of great…. (a) little and (a) few are quantifiers meaning ‘some’. We use them to mean ‘not as much as may be expected or wished for’.
Least / ˈliːst/ also littlest / ˈlɪtl̟əst/ britannica dictionary definition of little 1 a : In english, a little, little, a few, and few are used to describe small amounts of something, but they are used differently depending on whether the noun is countable or uncountable. The difficulty is commonly evaded by resort to a synonym (as smaller, smallest); I know little of their history.
I find that i need very little sleep these.
A short distance or time:
