"littlest" in the adjective sense
1. small, little
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
"a little dining room"
"a little house"
"a small car"
"a little (or small) group"
2. little, slight
quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
"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"
3. little, small
of children and animals) young, immature
"what a big little boy you are"
"small children"
4. fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
informal) small and of little importance
"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"
5. little, small
of a voice) faint
"a little voice"
"a still small voice"
6. short, little
low in stature not tall
"he was short and stocky"
"short in stature"
"a short smokestack"
"a little man"
7. little, minuscule, small
lowercase
"little a"
"small a"
"e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
8. little
small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context
"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"
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