little

/ˈlɪt.əl/

意味: 小さいもの

例文: June found a little glowing pebble.
　　  ジューンが小さな光る小石を見つけた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: little boy(小さな男の子), little time(少しの時間), little help(少しの助け)

定義: 小さい、少ない、または少しの量を表す言葉です。物や人が小さいことや、量や程度が少ないことを示します。

littleは約2,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a small amount or duration
Adjective: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Adjective: (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a’) at least some
Adjective: (of children and animals) young, immature
Adjective: (informal) small and of little importance
Adjective: (of a voice) faint
Adjective: low in stature; not tall
Adjective: lowercase
Adjective: small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
Adverb: not much

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Adjective, Adverb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She has a little dog at home.(彼女は家に小さな犬を飼っています。)
I need a little help with this task.(この作業で少し助けが必要です。)
The little boy smiled happily today.(小さな男の子は今日うれしそうに笑いました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he accepted the little they gave him
Adjective: a little dining room
Adjective: a little house
Adjective: a small car
Adjective: a little (or small) group
Adjective: little rain fell in May
Adjective: gave it little thought
Adjective: little time is left
Adjective: we still have little money
Adjective: a little hope remained
Adjective: there’s slight chance that it will work
Adjective: there’s a slight chance it will work
Adjective: what a big little boy you are
Adjective: small children
Adjective: a fiddling sum of money
Adjective: a footling gesture
Adjective: our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
Adjective: a little (or small) matter
Adjective: a dispute over niggling details
Adjective: limited to petty enterprises
Adjective: piffling efforts
Adjective: giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
Adjective: a little voice
Adjective: a still small voice
Adjective: he was short and stocky
Adjective: short in stature
Adjective: a short smokestack
Adjective: a little man
Adjective: little a
Adjective: small a
Adjective: e.e.cummings’s poetry is written all in minuscule letters
Adjective: a nice little job
Adjective: bless your little heart
Adjective: my dear little mother
Adjective: a sweet little deal
Adjective: I’m tired of your petty little schemes
Adjective: filthy little tricks
Adjective: what a nasty little situation
Adverb: he talked little about his family

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, minuscule, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, short, slight, small, trivial

Antonyms(反意語): big, large, much, tall

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): small indefinite quantity

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): couple, crumb, dab, dollop, dreg, drop, hair’s-breadth, handful, helping, jack, little, minimum, modicum, morsel, nip, nose, scattering, shoestring, shred, shtik, spot, spray, step, tad, taste, tot, touch, trace

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語):

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: littleness, pettiness, shortness, smallness, trivia, triviality, trivialize

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology, science

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:

comparative-irregular

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: