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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

en

little by little

US pronunciation

American soundlittle by little

littlebylittle

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final e often stays silent

little - by - little -> little by little

Myanmar meaning

အဖြည်းဖြည်း။

Full entry

little / 'lÇtl / adj

(littler, littlest အစား smaller, smallest ကို သုံးလေ့ရှိသည်။ )
၁။ (က) သေးသော။ ငယ်သော။ ကလေး။ စိုးစဉ်း။ အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။
a little purse ❍ a house with a little garden ❍ a little group of tourists ❍ She gave a little movement of impatience. ❍ There’s a little shop on the corner that sells bread.
(ခ) သေးသော။ ငယ်သော။ ကလေး။ စိုးစဉ်း။ အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ the little hand of the clock နာရီလက်တံတို။ ❍ ‘Which packet would you prefer?’ ‘I’ll take the little one. ’ ❍ SMALL
၂။ ကလေး။ a nice little room ❍ a sweet little child ❍ a funny little restaurant ❍ What a nasty little man!
၃။ အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ It’s only a little way now. ❍ You may have to wait a little while.
၄။ မပြောပလောက်သော။ a little mistake / problem.
၅။ ငယ်သော။ I had curly hair when I was little. ❍ My little (ie younger) brother is 18.
indef det ( used with uncountable ns ) အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ မဆိုစလောက်။ There was little doubt in my mind. ❍ I have very little time for reading. ❍ We had little rain all summer. ❍ There’s little point in telling her now. ဒီအချိန်မှ သူ့ကိုပြောလို့ ဘာထူးမှာလဲ။ ❍ MUCH
indef pron (used as a n when preceded by the ) အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ I understood little of what he said. ❍ We read a lot of poetry at school—I remember very little now. ❍ The little that I have seen of his work is excellent.
adv အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ အနည်းအကျဉ်း။ မများသော။ He is little known as an artist. ❍ She left little more than an hour ago. ❍ I slept very little last night. ❍ Little does he know (ie He does not know) what trouble he’s in.
a little indef det အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ a little milk / sugar / tea ❍ Could you give a little more attention to spelling? ❍ I need a little help to move these books. ❍ It caused not a little (ie a great deal of) confusion.
❏ a little indef pron
၁။ (က) အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ If you’ve got any spare milk, could you give me a little?
(ခ) အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ I’ve only read a little of the book so far.
၂။ အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ After a little he got up and left. ❍ We left the car and walked for a little.
(also a little bit) adv အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ She seemed a little afraid of going inside. ❍ These shoes are a little (bit) too big for me. ❍ She was not a little (ie very) worried about the expense.
❏ little by little [IDM ] တရွေ့ရွေ့။ တဖြည်းဖြည်း။ တစ်တိတစ်တိ။ တစ်စတစ်စ။ နည်းနည်းချင်း။ Little by little the snow disappeared. ❍ His English is improving little by little.
❏ little finger (US also pinkie ) n လက်သန်း။ ❍ HAND¹
❏ littleness n သေးငယ်ခြင်း။ မပြောပလောက်ခြင်း။ the littleness of man in the universe.
❏ little or nothing [IDM ] မဆိုစလောက်။ She said little or nothing about her experience.
❏ the little people n [pl] ဒဏ္ဍာရီလာ နတ်သမီး၊ မှင်စာကလေးများစသည်။
❏ make little of sth [IDM ]
၁။ = MAKE LIGHT OF STH (LIGHT³)
၂။ အလျှင်း။ မသိသလောက်။ It’s in Russian — I can make little of it. Compare LESS

More examples

There is little time to prepare for the exams.
Little has been revealed about his background.
She has done little today besides sleep.
[too little] : There was too much rain and too little sun.
[very little] : He’s an excellent manager, so there’s very little tension in the office.
[so little] : I’ve got so much to do and so little time to do it in.
[little or no] : She had trained herself to show little or no emotion, whatever happened.
[little of] : Jordan has lost little of his Irish accent.
[as little as possible] : He always tries to pay the workers as little as possible.
[the little] : He didn’t earn much money, and he gambled away the little he had saved.
[very little] : In her last years I saw her very little.
Our relationship has changed very little over the years.
[as little as possible] : They spoke of him as little as possible.
[little known] : Kang was little known outside of China.
[little more/better] : You accused me of being little better than a thief (=almost as bad as a thief).

Synonyms

small, modest, slight, petite, diminutive, tiny, minute, miniature, Lilliputian, a little, amount, babyish, bantam, barely, base, bigoted, bit, brief, casual, cheap, contemptible, cramped, dab, dash, degree, dinky, drop, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, fragment, hardly, hardly any, hardly ever, hasty, hidebound, hint, illiberal, immature, imperceptible, inadequately, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, ineffectual, infant, infinitesimal, infrequently, insignificant, insufficient, insufficiently, junior, light, limited, meager, mean, measure, microscopic, mini, minimum, minor, mite, modicum, narrow, narrow-minded, negligible, not big, not enough, not important, not large, not many, not much, not often, not quite, not sufficiently, not very, only just, ounce, paltry, particle, peanut, petty, piddling, pinch, pint-sized, pocket-sized, provincial, rarely, scant, scarcely, scrap, seldom, self-centered, selfish, set, shoestring, short, short-lived, shrimpy, shriveled, skimpy, slightly, small-minded, smidgen, snippet, snub, somewhat, soupÃ§on, sparse, speck, spot, stubby, stunted, taste, teeny, touch, toy, trace, trifle, trifling, trivial, truncated, undersized, undeveloped, unimportant, vulgar, wee, whit, wicked, wizened, young

Antonyms

adequate, big, broad-minded, consequential, enormous, fat, frequently, generous, giant, glob, great, huge, immense, important, kind, large, lengthy, liberal, long, lot, magnanimous, magnificent, major, massive, more, mound, much, noble, older, open, open-minded, significant, substantial, sufficient, tall, useful, well

Cross references

small modest slight petite diminutive tiny minute miniature Lilliputian a little amount babyish bantam barely base bigoted bit brief casual cheap contemptible cramped dab dash degree dinky drop elfin

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