Little

1. Small in size.
2. Insignificant, trivial.
   1. (offensive) Used to belittle
3. Very young.
4. (of a sibling) Younger.
5. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhoodwhose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
6. Small in amount or number, having fewmembers.
7. Short in duration; brief.
8. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.

Usage notes

Some authorities regard both littler and littlest as non-standard. The OED says of the word little: "the adjective has no recognized mode of comparison. The difficulty is commonly evaded by resort to a synonym (as smaller, smallest); some writers have ventured to employ the unrecognized forms littler, littlest, which are otherwise confined to dialect or imitations of childish or illiterate speech." The forms lesser and least are encountered in animal names such as lesser flamingo and least weasel.

AntonymsEdit

• (small): large, big
• (young): big
• (younger): big