Least
Least adjective - The superlative of `little' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree.
Very little and least are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Very little" instead an adjective "Least".
Very little
Least and very little are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Least" instead an adjective phrase "Very little".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Common spoof: to reveal that in fact very little time (or at least, not as much as the montage would have implied) has passed.
Source: Time Passes Montage - Loke is, however, part of an organization that Sifris knows very little about.Sifris himself isn't much of a social person, but has at least two friends: Zero and Charm.
Source: Webcomic / Pink Black -
At least one Silver Age comic has Superman ends up in the far future where the sun had turned red, the oceans had baked away, and very little life was left on Earth.
Source: Food Pills
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