few
determiner, pronoun, noun, adjective (NOT MANY) /fjuː/Definition
B1 a small number or not many: It was embarrassing how few people attended the party. He is among the few people I can trust. Very few people can afford to pay those prices. We leave for France in a few days. Few of the children can read or write yet. Few things in this world give me more pleasure than a long bath. Fewer people smoke these days than used to. We get few complaints. According to the survey, as few as ten percent of us are happy with our jobs. The benefits of this scheme are few. → Compare little determiner Note: Few is used with countable nouns.Scarce, inadequate and not enoughLacking things few and far between C2 not happening or existing very often: Flats which are both comfortable and reasonably priced are few and far between.Rarely and infrequentlyScarce, inadequate and not enoughLacking things
(Definition of few determinerpronounnounadjective (NOT MANY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (every) now and then/again idiom
- episodic adjective (EVENT)
- ever and anon adverb
- every determiner (REPEATED)
- in/by fits and starts idiom
- infrequent adjective
- isolated adjective
- occasion noun
- occasional adjective
- occasionally adverb
- odd adjective (NOT OFTEN)
- once in a blue moon idiom
- once-in-a-lifetime adjective
- one-off adjective
- one-off noun
- rarely adverb
- seldom adverb
- sometimes adverb
- stop-go adjective
- time noun (OCCASION)
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