Little crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Little” are LESS, SOFT or TINY, with 4 letters. Below are 93 answers from 3 to 14 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

LOW 3 letters · adjective

less than normal in degree or intensity or amount “low prices”

LESS 4 letters · adjective

(comparative of ‘little’ usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree “of less importance”

SMALL 5 letters · adjective

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent “a small car”

MINUTE 6 letters · noun

a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour “he ran a 4 minute mile”

SMALLER 7 letters · adjective

small or little relative to something else

IMMATURE 8 letters · adjective

characteristic of a lack of maturity “immature behavior”

EMOTIONAL 9 letters · adjective

determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason “it was an emotional judgment”

DIMINUTIVE 10 letters · adjective

very small “diminutive in stature”

MICROSCOPIC 11 letters · adjective

of or relating to or used in microscopy “microscopic analysis”

UNPROFITABLE 12 letters · adjective

producing little or no profit or gain “deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable”

INSIGNIFICANT 13 letters · adjective

of little importance or influence or power; of minor status “a minor, insignificant bureaucrat”

INSIGNIFICANCE 14 letters · noun

the quality of having little or no significance

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, LESS, SOFT, TINY, SLIM, PUNY and JUST all fit. The first letter settles most of it: L → LESS · S → SOFT, SLIM · T → TINY · P → PUNY · J → JUST. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, SMALL, YOUNG, SHORT, THICK, MICRO and PETTY all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: A → SMALL · U → YOUNG · O → SHORT · I → THICK · C → MICRO · T → PETTY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, LOW, WEE and DIM all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: L → LOW · W → WEE · D → DIM. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “littles” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “little” means

• adjective: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent (“a little dining room”)
• adjective: (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”)
• adjective: (of children and animals) young, immature (“what a big little boy you are”)
• adjective: (informal) small and of little importance (“a little (or small) matter”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as LITTLE, and words whose definition is LITTLE. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.