Thesaurus / few
other words for few
MOST RELEVANT
- lean
- less
- middling
- minor
- minority
- minute
- petty
- scanty
- scattering
- short
- slight
- trifling
- exiguous
- few and far between
- imperceptible
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- infrequent
- insufficient
- meager
- negligible
- not many
- not too many
- occasional
- paltry
- piddling
- rare
- scant
- scarce
- scarcely any
- scattered
- seldom
- semioccasional
- skimpy
- slender
- slim
- some
- sparse
- sporadic
- stingy
- straggling
- thin
- uncommon
- unfrequent
- widely spaced
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And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSON
But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
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Few people, I think, realize that, and fewer still realize the reasonable consequences of that.
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Moreover, most of the burrows were only a few feet apart and no agonistic behavior was witnessed.
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The associations of place recall her strange interview with Mr. Longcluse but a few months before.
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A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
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It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.
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The enemy were pursued and annoyed by a few hundred of the citizens under Wooster and Arnold; the former was killed.
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WORDS RELATED TO FEW
- attenuate
- attenuated
- deficient
- extraordinary
- few
- few and far between
- flimsy
- inconceivable
- isolated
- light
- limited
- occasional
- out of the ordinary
- rarefied
- recherché
- scanty
- scarce
- scattered
- seldom
- semioccasional
- short
- singular
- sparse
- sporadic
- strange
- subtile
- subtle
- tenuous
- thin
- uncommon
- unfrequent
- unheard of
- unimaginable
- unique
- unlikely
- unthinkable
- unusual
- unwonted
- attenuate
- attenuated
- deficient
- extraordinary
- few
- few and far between
- flimsy
- inconceivable
- isolated
- light
- limited
- occasional
- out of the ordinary
- rarefied
- recherché
- scanty
- scarce
- scattered
- seldom
- semioccasional
- short
- singular
- sparse
- sporadic
- strange
- subtile
- subtle
- tenuous
- thin
- uncommon
- unfrequent
- unheard of
- unimaginable
- unique
- unlikely
- unthinkable
- unusual
- unwonted
- attenuate
- attenuated
- deficient
- extraordinary
- few
- few and far between
- flimsy
- inconceivable
- isolated
- light
- limited
- occasional
- out of the ordinary
- rarefied
- recherché
- scanty
- scarce
- scattered
- seldom
- semioccasional
- short
- singular
- sparse
- sporadic
- strange
- subtile
- subtle
- tenuous
- thin
- uncommon
- unfrequent
- unheard of
- unimaginable
- unique
- unlikely
- unthinkable
- unusual
- unwonted
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