sprinkling | Definition of sprinkling

Synonyms and Antonyms of sprinkling

1 a small number

a sprinkling of fans showed up at the airport

Synonyms of sprinkling

couple, few, handful, scatter, scattering, smatter, smattering, sprinkle

Words Related to sprinkling

atom, crumb, fragment, grain, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, particle, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

Near Antonyms of sprinkling

abundance, excess, plenty, surplus

deal, gobs, heap, lot, mass, much, peck, pile, plenitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, slather, slew, stack, wad, wealth

Antonyms of sprinkling

army, crowd, flock, gazillion, horde, host, jillion, kazillion, legion, loads, many, mountain, multitude, oodles, scads, thousands, zillion

2 a very small amount

just a sprinkling of experience with the computer program

Synonyms of sprinkling

ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smack, smell, smidgen (also smidgeon), snap, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, splash, spot, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, touch, trace

Words Related to sprinkling

hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whit

atom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrap

dash, drop, pinch

part, portion, section

bite, nibble, taste

handful, scattering, smatter, smattering

chip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splinter

clipping, paring, shaving

Phrases Synonymous with sprinkling

drop in the bucket

Near Antonyms of sprinkling

abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass