Main entry: short, little
Definition: low in stature; not tall
Usage: he was short and stocky; short in stature; a short smokestack; a little man
Antonyms: tall
Definition: great in vertical dimension; high in stature
Antonyms: loose
Definition: not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
Antonyms: thin
Definition: of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
Antonyms: thin
Definition: relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
Main entry: little, small
Definition: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Usage: a little dining room; a little house; a small car; a little (or small) group
Definition: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Antonyms: majuscule
Definition: of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
Antonyms: greater
Definition: greater in size or importance or degree
Main entry: slight, little
Definition: (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Usage: 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
Antonyms: much
Definition: (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent
Definition: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Antonyms: big
Definition: on a grand scale
Main entry: little, small
Definition: (of children and animals) young, immature
Usage: what a big little boy you are; small children
Definition: people who are old collectively
Antonyms: old
Definition: (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
Antonyms: mature
Definition: having reached full natural growth or development
Antonyms: mature
Definition: characteristic of maturity
Main entry: little, small, minuscule
Definition: lowercase
Usage: little a; small a; e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
Antonyms: majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital, capital letter
Definition: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
Antonyms: uppercase
Definition: relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
Main entry: little
Definition: small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
Usage: 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
Antonyms: unemotional
Definition: unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion
Antonyms: cerebral, intellectual
Definition: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
Main entry: little, small
Definition: (of a voice) faint
Usage: a little voice; a still small voice
Antonyms: hard
Definition: resisting weight or pressure
Antonyms: hard
Definition: dispassionate
Antonyms: hard
Definition: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
Antonyms: hard, concentrated
Definition: (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
Antonyms: loud
Definition: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
Antonyms: hardened
Definition: protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
Main entry: trivial, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, lilliputian, little, footling, fiddling
Definition: (informal) small and of little importance
Usage: 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