tittle

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tit=tle

CIDE DICTIONARY

tittle, n. [OE. titel, titil, apparently a dim. of tit, in the sense of small; cf. G. tÜttel a tittle, dim. of OHG. tutta teat. Perhaps, however, the same word as title, n.].

 A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.  [1913 Webster]
"It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail."  [1913 Webster]
"Every tittle of this prophecy is most exactly verified."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tittle, n.
1 a small written or printed stroke or dot.
2 a particle; a whit (esp. in not one jot or tittle).

Etymology

ME f. L (as TITLE)

THESAURUS

tittle

ace, atom, birthmark, bit, blaze, blemish, blotch, brand, caste mark, check, checkmark, cicatrix, crumb, cut, dab, dapple, diacritical mark, discoloration, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, earmark, end stop, engraving, farthing, fleck, flick, flyspeck, fragment, freckle, gash, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, graving, groat, hack, hair, handful, iota, jot, lentigo, little, little bit, lota, macula, mark, marking, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, mole, molecule, mote, mottle, nevus, nick, notch, nutshell, ounce, particle, patch, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, polka dot, prick, punctuation, punctuation marks, puncture, reference, reference mark, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scrap, scratch, scratching, scruple, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spoonful, spot, stain, stigma, stop, strawberry mark, tattoo, tattoo mark, thimbleful, tick, tiny bit, trifling amount, trivia, vanishing point, watermark, whit

ROGET THESAURUS

tittle

Smallness

N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.