[ adjective ]
■ (informal) small and of little importance
e.g.)
・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
・a dispute over niggling details
・limited to petty enterprises
・piffling efforts
・giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
→
fiddling
,
footling
,
lilliputian
,
little
,
niggling
,
petty
,
picayune
,
piddling
,
piffling
,
trivial
[ adjective ]
■ limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
e.g.)
・a little dining room
・a little house
・a small car
・a little (or small) group
→
little
,
small
[ adjective ]
■ very small
e.g.)
・diminutive in stature
・a lilliputian chest of drawers
・her petite figure
・tiny feet
・the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
→
bantam
,
diminutive
,
flyspeck
,
lilliputian
,
midget
,
petite
,
tiny
[ adjective ]
■ (of a voice) faint
e.g.)
・a little voice
・a still small voice
→
little
,
small
[ adjective ]
■ (of children and animals) young, immature
e.g.)
・what a big little boy you are
・small children
→
little
,
small
[ adjective ]
■ low in stature
■ not tall
e.g.)
・he was short and stocky
・short in stature
・a short smokestack
・a little man
→
little
,
short
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