little

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

“a little dining room”

“a little house”

“a small car”

“a little (or small) group”

(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some

“little rain fell in May”

“gave it little thought”

“little time is left”

“we still have little money”

(of children and animals) young, immature

“what a big little boy you are”

“small children”

(informal) small and of little importance

“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”

(of a voice) faint

“a little voice”

“a still small voice”

low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal

“he was short and stocky”

“short in stature”

“a short smokestack”

“a little man”

a small amount or duration

“he accepted the little they gave him”

not much

“he talked little about his family”