a little vs negligibly

a little

adv

  • To a small extent or degree. 

  • A lot. 

  • Slightly. 

  • Very. 

  • A lot of. 

det

  • A small amount of. 

negligibly

adv

  • To a degree that is negligible; so small or slight that it may be ignored. 

How often have the words a little and negligibly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )