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LITTLER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does littler mean?
• LITTLER (adjective)
The adjective LITTLER has 1 sense:
1. small or little relative to something else
Familiarity information: LITTLER used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small or little relative to something else
Synonyms:
littler; smaller
Similar:
little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Context examples
It was no paler and but littler thinner than in the autumn, yet there was a strange, transparent look about it, as if the mortal was being slowly refined away, and the immortal shining through the frail flesh with an indescribably pathetic beauty.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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