The Clue
Most petite (8 letter answer)
The Answer
LITTLEST
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Notes
The answer LITTLEST is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Definition
LITTLE as an adjective:
1. (small, little) = limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"
2. (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"
3. (brief, little) = of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away"
4. (little, small) = (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
5. (fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial) = (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
6. (little, small) = (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
7. (little, minuscule, small) = lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
8. small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation"