Thesaurus / few
FEEDBACKsynonyms for few
synonyms for few
- 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
See also synonyms for: fews
- several
- some
- scattering
- smattering
- spattering
- sprinkling
- not many
- not too many
- slim pickings
- small number
- smatter
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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. WILLIAMSONBut 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 FAYSo after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYDrowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONFew people, I think, realize that, and fewer still realize the reasonable consequences of that.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSMoreover, most of the burrows were only a few feet apart and no agonistic behavior was witnessed.
SUMMER BIRDS FROM THE YUCATAN PENINSULAERWIN E. KLAASThe associations of place recall her strange interview with Mr. Longcluse but a few months before.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUA few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONIt is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDThe enemy were pursued and annoyed by a few hundred of the citizens under Wooster and Arnold; the former was killed.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLWORDS 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
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- unfrequent
- unheard of
- unimaginable
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- unlikely
- unthinkable
- unusual
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- 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
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- short
- singular
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- sporadic
- strange
- subtile
- subtle
- tenuous
- thin
- uncommon
- unfrequent
- unheard of
- unimaginable
- unique
- unlikely
- unthinkable
- unusual
- unwonted
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