small

  • (r) on a small scale
    • think small
  • (a) 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
    little,
  • (s) limited in size or scope
    • a small business
    • a newspaper with a modest circulation
    • small-scale plans
    • a pocket-size country
    pocket-size, pocket-sized, small-scale, modest, minor,
  • (s) (of children and animals) young, immature
    • what a big little boy you are
    • small children
    little,
  • (s) slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
    • a series of death struggles with small time in between
  • (s) low or inferior in station or quality
    • a humble cottage
    • a lowly parish priest
    • a modest man of the people
    • small beginnings
    humble, lowly, modest, low,
  • (s) lowercase
    • little a
    • small a
    • e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
    minuscule, little,
  • (s) (of a voice) faint
    • a little voice
    • a still small voice
    little,
  • (s) have fine or very small constituent particles
    • a small misty rain
  • (s) not large but sufficient in size or amount
    • a modest salary
    • modest inflation
    • helped in my own small way
    modest,
  • (s) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
    • her comments made me feel small
    belittled, diminished,

Nouns

  • (n) the slender part of the back
  • (n) a garment size for a small person

Synonyms

little pocket-size pocket-sized small-scale modest minor humble lowly low minuscule belittled diminished

Antonyms

big large

Words of close approximity

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