few
few is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Few know and fewer care. Proverb. Note: Few is often used partitively; as, few of them. A few, a small number. -- In few, in a few words; briefly. Shak. - No few, not few; more than a few; many. Cowper. - The few, the minority; -- opposed to the many or the majority.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abbreviate
- abbreviation
- abbreviature
- abridge
- abridgment
- abstract
- album
- all
- almost
- alone
- alter
- among
- analecta
- analectic
- analysis
- and
- anthology
- any
- apercu
- between
- bite
- blue
- book
- brevity
- bridle
- brief
- briefly
- button
- cave
- centesimal
- certain
- close
- collect
- collectanea
- come
- comes
- commonplace
- compact
- compend
- compendious
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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