1. Small or little relative to something else
   "Her brain must be littler than mine";
   - smaller

1. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
   "a little dining room";
   - small
    
2. Small in degree, amount, or importance
   "Little hope remained";
   - slight
    
3. [informal] Small and of little importance
   "a little (or small) matter";
   - fiddling [informal], footling [informal], lilliputian [informal], niggling [informal], piddling [informal], piffling [informal], petty [informal], picayune [N. Amer, informal], trivial [informal], niggly [informal], piddly [informal]
    
4. (of children and animals) young, immature
   "what a big little boy you are";
   - small
    
5. Low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
   "a little man";
   - short
    
6. (of a voice) faint
   "a little voice";
   - small
    
7. Lowercase
   "little a";
   - minuscule, small
    
8. Small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
   "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation"; "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"

See also: atomic, bantam, bitsy [informal], bittie [informal], bitty [informal], chunky, compact, diddy [Brit, informal], diminutive, dinky [informal], dumpy, dwarfish, eensy [informal], eensy-weensy [informal], elfin, elflike, emotional, flyspeck, gnomish, half-length, half-size, heavyset, height, immature, infinitesimal, insignificant, itsy-bitsy [informal], itty-bitty [informal], less, lesser, lilliputian, low, lowercase, low-set, micro, microscopic, microscopical, midget, miniature, miniscule, minuscule, minute, olive-sized, petite, pint-size [informal], pint-sized [informal], pocketable, pocket-size, pocket-sized, puny, runty, sawed-off [N. Amer], sawn-off [Brit], short-stalked, shrimpy, size, slender, slim, small [archaic], smallish, small-scale, smol, soft, squab, squabby, squat, squatty, stature, stocky, stumpy, subatomic, teensy [informal], teensy-weensy [informal], teentsy [informal], teeny [informal], teeny-weeny [informal], thick, thickset, tiddly [Brit, informal], tiny, titchy [Brit, informal], undersize, undersized, unimportant, wee [informal], weensy [informal], weeny [informal], young

Antonym: big, much, tall

Encyclopedia: Littler, John