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precious little

precious little determiner: almost nothing; hardly anything.

Determiner

precious little

  1. (idiomatic) Almost nothing; hardly anything.
    • Precious little thanks we got!
    • Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195
    Synonyms:
    precious few

precious little meaning in Kannada

precious little in Kannada

ಅತ್ಯಲ್ಪ

Synonyms of precious little

Questions about precious little

What does precious little mean?
Precious little means almost nothing; hardly anything.
What is precious little in Kannada?
Precious little in Kannada is ಅತ್ಯಲ್ಪ. See Precious little meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is precious little?
Precious little is a determiner.

Words near precious little in the dictionary

  1. preciosity
  2. precious
  3. Precious Blood
  4. precious coral
  5. precious few
  6. precious little
  7. precious metal
  8. precious metals
  9. precious stone
  10. precious stones
  11. preciouses

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