Antonyms for quite a few
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fyoo |
| Phonetic Transcription : fyu |
Definition of quite a few
Origin :- Old English feawe (plural; contracted to fea) "few, seldom, even a little," from Proto-Germanic *faw-, from PIE root *pau- (1) "few, little" (cf. Latin paucus "few, little," paullus "little," parvus "little, small," pauper "poor;" Greek pauros "few, little," pais (genitive paidos) "child;" Latin puer "child, boy," pullus "young animal;" Oscan puklu "child;" Sanskrit potah "a young animal," putrah "son;" Old English fola "young horse;" Old Norse fylja "young female horse;" Old Church Slavonic puta "bird;" Lithuanian putytis "young animal, young bird"). Always plural in Old English.
- Phrase few and far between attested from 1660s. Unusual ironic use in quite a few "many" (1883), earlier a good few (1828). The noun is late 12c., fewe, from the adjective.
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. [Winston Churchill, 1940]
- As in multitudinous : adj many, considerable
- As in several : adj assorted, various
- As in sundry : adj miscellaneous
Synonyms for quite a few
- a few
- a lot
- abounding
- abundant
- any
- assorted
- certain
- considerable
- copious
- countless
- definite
- different
- disparate
- distinct
- divers
- diverse
- great
- handful
- hardly any
- heaps
- indefinite
- individual
- infinite
- infrequent
- innumerable
- innumerous
- legion
- manifold
- many
- multifarious
- myriad
- not many
- numberless
- numerous
- only a few
- particular
- personal
- plural
- populous
- profuse
- proportionate
- quite a few
- rare
- respective
- scant
- scanty
- scarce
- scarcely any
- separate
- several
- single
- small number
- some
- sparse
- special
- specific
- sundry
- teeming
- uncountable
- uncounted
- unnumbered
- untold
- varied
- various
- voluminous
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