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Results for: "little"

Translating from English to Norwegian

Translations:

little — small in size
→ liten
→ lite
little — not much
→ lite
little — small amount
→ litt

More translations:

little
→ liten
little
→ lite, litt
little
→ lite(n)
little
→ bare litt, ikke mye
little
→ lite-
little
→ ikke i det hele tatt

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (1)

1. a small amount or duration;
- Example: "he accepted the little they gave him"


ADJECTIVE (8)

1. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent;
- Example: "a little dining room"
- Example: "a little house"
- Example: "a small car"
- Example: "a little (or small) group"
[syn: small, little]

2. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some;
- Example: "little rain fell in May"
- Example: "gave it little thought"
- Example: "little time is left"
- Example: "we still have little money"
- Example: "a little hope remained"
- Example: "there's slight chance that it will work"
- Example: "there's a slight chance it will work"
[syn: little(a), slight]

3. (of children and animals) young, immature;
- Example: "what a big little boy you are"
- Example: "small children"
[syn: little, small]

4. (informal) small and of little importance;
- Example: "a fiddling sum of money"
- Example: "a footling gesture"
- Example: "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"
- Example: "a little (or small) matter"
- Example: "a dispute over niggling details"
- Example: "limited to petty enterprises"
- Example: "piffling efforts"
- Example: "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
[syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]

5. (of a voice) faint;
- Example: "a little voice"
- Example: "a still small voice"
[syn: little, small]

6. low in stature; not tall;
- Example: "he was short and stocky"
- Example: "short in stature"
- Example: "a short smokestack"
- Example: "a little man"
[syn: short, little]

7. lowercase;
- Example: "little a"
- Example: "small a"
- Example: "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
[syn: little, minuscule, small]

8. small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context);
- Example: "a nice little job"
- Example: "bless your little heart"
- Example: "my dear little mother"
- Example: "a sweet little deal"
- Example: "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"
- Example: "filthy little tricks"
- Example: "what a nasty little situation"


ADVERB (1)

1. not much;
- Example: "he talked little about his family"