modicum

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mod=i=cum

CIDE DICTIONARY

modicum, n. [L., fr. modicus moderate, fr. modus. See Mode.].

 A little; a small quantity; a measured supply.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
"Her usual modicum of beer and punch."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

modicum, n. (foll. by of) a small quantity.

Etymology

L, = short distance or time, neut. of modicus moderate f. modus measure

THESAURUS

modicum

ace, allotment, allowance, atom, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, budget, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, commission, contingent, crumb, cut, cutting, dab, dash, deal, destiny, dividend, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, dwarf, end, equal share, farthing, fate, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gob, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, half, halver, handful, helping, hint, hunk, interest, iota, jot, little, little bit, lot, lota, lump, measure, meed, mess, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, moiety, molecule, morsel, mote, nutshell, ounce, paring, part, particle, pebble, percentage, piece, pinch, pittance, point, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rake-off, rasher, ration, scintilla, scoop, scrap, scruple, segment, shard, share, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, small share, smidgen, smidgin, smitch, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, spark, speck, splinter, spoonful, spot, stake, stitch, stock, stump, suggestion, tatter, thimbleful, tinge, tiny bit, tittle, touch, trifle, trifling amount, trivia, whit

ROGET THESAURUS

modicum

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.

Apportionment

N apportionment, allotment, consignment, assignment, appointment, appropriation, dispensation, distribution, division, deal, repartition, partition, administration, dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose, dole, meed, pittance, quantum, ration, ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance, suerte, apportioning, respective, respectively, each to each.