English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: an amount of small or insignificant quantity
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- ace
- atom [⇒ thesaurus]
- atomy
- aught (archaic)
- bissel
- bit [⇒ thesaurus]
- crumb
- glimpse
- dab
- damn
- dash [⇒ thesaurus]
- diddly
- glint
- dot
- spatter
- drop
- dusting
- fleck
- glimmer
- hint
- flip
- flyspeck
- grain [⇒ thesaurus]
- halfpennyworth (British, idiomatic)
- hint
- inch
- iota
- jot
- lick
- mite
- modicum
- molecule [⇒ thesaurus]
- morceau
- morsel
- mote
- ooch
- ounce
- particle [⇒ thesaurus]
- pennyworth (chiefly British, idiomatic)
- piece [⇒ thesaurus]
- pinch
- relish (obsolete)
- scantling (archaic)
- semblance
- scent
- scintilla
- scooch
- scrap
- scruple
- shred
- skerrick (Australia, New Zealand)
- skoosh
- skosh
- sliver
- smattering
- smidge
- smidgen
- smidget
- smidgy
- smitch (originally Scotland, chiefly US)
- smithereen (chiefly in the plural)
- soupçon
- spark (figuratively)
- speck
- speckle
- spot [⇒ thesaurus]
- sprinkle
- sprinkling
- strain
- tad
- tidbit
- tidge
- tinge
- tittle
- toddick
- touch
- trace
- trifle [⇒ thesaurus]
- tuppence worth (British, idiomatic)
- vestige
- whiff
- whit
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- Thesaurus:trifle (item of little value)
- Thesaurus:nothing
- Thesaurus:near
Further reading
[edit]- Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification
- Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
- Section III. Quantity
- Quantity by Comparison with a Standard
- “32. smallness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- Quantity by Comparison with a Standard
- Section III. Quantity
- Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
- “modicum” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.