Meanings
comparative more unlittle · superlative most unlittle
- Not little.
“And you're unlittle,” chimed Tira. “Very unlittle.”
2020, Matthew S. Cox, The Cursed Codex1 more example
And so their little private lists of links became a rather unlittle shared list of links which they christened (gotta call it something) “Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web.”
1997, Robert Reid, Architects of the Web, page 249
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*unlutil“not little”
- Old Englishunlȳtel
- Middle Englishunlitel
- Englishunlittle
From Middle English unlitel, unnlitell, from Old English unlȳtel, unlytel (“not little, large, great”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlutil (“not little”), equivalent to un- + little. Cognate with Old High German unluzzil (“excessive, inordinate”), Old Norse úlítill (“not little”).
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
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