Definition of Even a little

1. Adverb. To any extent at all. "Are you in the least interested?"

Exact synonyms: In The Least

Lexicographical Neighbors of Even A Little

even-handedness
even-keel
even-minded
even-mindedness
even-pinnate
even-pinnate leaf
even-servant
even-steven
even-stevens
even-tempered
even-toed
even-toed ungulate
even-year runs
even Homer nods
even Jove nods
even a little (current term)
even as
even as we speak
even chance
even function
even functions
even if
even keel
even money
even odds
even off
even out
even skipped
even so
even spacing

Literary usage of Even a little

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"... patches of scrub and even a little woodland occur almost at the snow line in favored places. ..."

2. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ... (1800)
"... to the time for cutting lambs, let them be about five or fix months old, or even a little later in ..."

3. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer (1853)
"I have sun enough on this new year, yes, and even a little more, to give away in ease any body wanted it. But I must tell you something about ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1900)
"But it is delightful to observe the serene joy with which she displays it to her friends, certain of sympathy, expectant of even a little envy. ..."

5. The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer by George Tomkyns Chesney (1871)
"... even a little common-sense, and this great calamity would have been rendered utterly impossible. Too late, alas! . We were like the foolish virgins in ..."

6. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"This indicates that even a little money is still a matter of great moment in Italy. Signor del Bello, who, I believe, is also a nobleman, haggled with us ..."

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