Few a. [Compar. Fewer superl. Fewest.]  Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituting a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. “Are not my days few?”
     Few know and fewer care.   --Proverb.
  Note: ☞ Few is often used partitively; as, few of them.
  A few, a small number.
  In few, in a few words; briefly.
  -- No few, not few; more than a few; many.
  -- The few, the minority; -- opposed to the many or the majority.
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  fewest
       adj : (superlative of `few' used with count nouns and usually
             preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the smallest in
             number; "the fewest birds in recent memory" [syn: fewest(a)]
             [ant: most(a)]