QUITE A LITTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quite a little mean? 

• QUITE A LITTLE (noun)
  The noun QUITE A LITTLE has 1 sense:

1. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

  Familiarity information: QUITE A LITTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUITE A LITTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

muckle; wad; tidy sum; stack; spate; slew; sight; raft; quite a little; pot; plenty; pile; peck; passel; batch; mountain; mint; mickle; mess; mass; lot; heap; hatful; great deal; good deal; flock; deal

Context example:

a wad of money

Hypernyms ("quite a little" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quite a little"):

deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)

haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)

 Context examples 

My wrist bled freely, and quite a little pool trickled on to the carpet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Yes; the Inspector and I have made quite a little reconnaissance together.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We have quite a little round of afternoon calls to make,” said he.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She is quite a little creature.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He put his hand upon my shoulder, as it had been his custom to do when I was quite a little fellow, but did not lift his grey head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite a little gust, as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They sang together, and played duets together, and we had quite a little concert.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"When I have one of my own, I hope it will be as happy as the three I know and love the best. If John and my Fritz were only here, it would be quite a little heaven on earth," she added more quietly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It’s worth quite a little fortune to any man who gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits’ end what to do with the money.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)