Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Small in size.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Very young, of childhood age.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- (often capitalized) 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.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- Having few members.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Short in duration; brief.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
Adverbi
- Not much.
- Not at all.
Pronomini
- Not much; not a large amount.
Substantiivi
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, BDSM, ABDL) The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
- (countable) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
Esimerkit
- This is a little table.
- Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
- It's of little importance.
- Did he tell you any embarrassing stories about when she was little?
- That's the biggest little boy I've ever seen.
- This is my little sister.
- If you want to find Little France, take any turning on the north side of Leicester square, and wander in a zigzag fashion Oxford Streetwards. The Little is rather smokier and more squalid than the Great France upon the other side of the Manche.
- In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore's Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.
- little money; little herd
- a little sleep
- The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, / Because their natures are little.
- This is a little known fact.
- She spoke little and listened less.
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
- I was speaking ill of Fred; little did I know that he was right behind me, listening in.
- But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[...]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
- But as United saw the game out, little did they know that, having looked likely to win their 13th Premier League title, it was City who turned the table to snatch glory from their arch-rivals' grasp.
- This little girl is very smart for her age.
- Tom is a little boy.
Taivutusmuodot
| Komparatiivi | less (vanhahtava) | Komparatiivi | lesser |
| Komparatiivi | littler | Superlatiivi | least |
| Superlatiivi | littlest | Monikko | littles |