little vs no

little

adv
  • Not at all. 

  • Not much. 

pron
  • Not much; not a large amount. 

det
  • Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of). 

adj
  • Operating on a small scale. 

  • Very young. 

  • Short in duration; brief. 

  • To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign. 

  • Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous. 

  • Younger. 

  • Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place. 

  • Having few members. 

  • Small in size. 

  • Insignificant, trivial. 

  • Used to belittle a person. 

noun
  • One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state. 

  • A small amount. 

  • A child; particularly an infant. 

  • A newly initiated member of a sorority, who is mentored by a big. 

  • The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role. 

no

adv
  • not 

  • Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives. 

  • Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives. 

noun
  • a negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval 

  • a vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition 

intj
  • vehement rejection of truthfulness 

  • disgust 

  • mild disapproval 

prep
  • not, does not, do not, etc. 

  • without 

  • like 

det
  • Not any. 

  • Hardly any. 

  • Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. 

  • Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). 

particle
  • Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition. 

  • Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement. 

  • Used to show agreement with a negative question. 

How often have the words little and no occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )