Wikisaurus:modicum

WIKISAURUS

modicum

English

Noun

Sense: an amount of small or insignificant quantity

Synonyms

• atom    [WS]
• bit    [WS]
• crumb
• damn
• dash    [WS]
• diddly
• grain    [WS]
• hint
• inch
• iota
• jot
• lick
• mite
• modicum
• molecule    [WS]
• morsel
• mote
• ounce
• particle    [WS]
• pinch
• scintilla
• scrap
• scruple
• shred
• skosh
• smattering
• smidge
• smidgen
• soupçon
• speck
• tad
• tidbit
• tittle
• trace
• whit

Antonyms

• truckload
• volume
• whale    [WS]

External links

• Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification

  Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations

  Section III. Quantity

  Quantity by Comparison with a Standard

  32. “Smallness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

• “modicum” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.