Synonyms and Antonyms of tad
1
a very small amount
- there's more than just a tad of hyperbole in the critics' praise for the promising young pianist
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, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, touch, trace
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
dose, shot
chip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splinter
shred, tatter
clipping, paring, shaving
abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth
volume
bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus
chunk, hunk, lump, slab
2
a male person who has not yet reached adulthood
- grandfather never tires of telling us about the days when he was just a tad
boy, boychick (or boychik), boyo [Irish], callant [chiefly Scottish], lad, laddie, nipper, shaveling, shaver, sonny, stripling, youth
adolescent, juvenile, kid, kiddie (also kiddy), kiddo, minor, moppet, teenager, tween, youngling, youngster
brat, gamin, guttersnipe, ho
