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EVEN A LITTLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does even a little mean?
• EVEN A LITTLE (adverb)
The adverb EVEN A LITTLE has 1 sense:
1. to any extent at all
Familiarity information: EVEN A LITTLE used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To any extent at all
Synonyms:
even a little; in the least
Context example:
are you in the least interested?
Context examples
And he, for all his grey years and sage experience, behaved quite as puppyishly and even a little more foolishly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
At intervals, along the town, and even a little way out upon the road, I saw more: but at length only the bleak night and the open country were around me, and the ashes of my youthful friendship.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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