Meaning & use
tad
A very small amount or degree of something; informally used to soften a statement.
See it in a sentence
Could you turn the music down just a tad? It's a little loud.
The soup needed a tad more salt before it was ready to serve.
A note on using this word
Tad is informal and almost always follows a in the phrase a tad, functioning like slightly.
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