Adjective

• S: (adj) less ((comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree) "of less importance"; "less time to spend with the family"; "a shower uses less water"; "less than three years old"
• S: (adj) less ((usually preceded by `no') lower in quality) "no less than perfect"
• S: (adj) less ((nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer) "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"
• S: (adj) small, 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"
• S: (adj) little, slight ((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"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"
• S: (adj) little, small ((of children and animals) young, immature) "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
• S: (adj) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial ((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"; "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"
• S: (adj) little, small ((of a voice) faint) "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
• S: (adj) short, little (low in stature; not tall) "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
• S: (adj) little, minuscule, small (lowercase) "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
• S: (adj) little (small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)) "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation"

Adverb

• S: (adv) less, to a lesser extent (used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs) "less interesting"; "less expensive"; "less quickly"
• S: (adv) less (comparative of little) "she walks less than she should"; "he works less these days"
• S: (adv) little (not much) "he talked little about his family"