| Main Entry: | undersized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | little |
Synonyms: |
diminutive, dinky, miniature, minute, petite, pint-sized, puny, small, tiny |
Antonyms: |
big, enormous, huge, large, outsized, sizable, sizeable, substantial |
| Main Entry: | undersized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | little |
Synonyms: |
miniature, petite, puny, short, small, stunted, tiny |
Antonyms: |
enormous, oversized |
| Main Entry: | dwarf |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miniature, tiny |
Synonyms: |
baby, diminutive, low, petite, pocket, small, undersized |
| Notes: | a dwarf is smaller and not proportioned like an average person; a midget is smaller but is proportioned like an average full-grown person; a pygmy is perfectly proportioned but smaller than a midget |
Antonyms: |
big, giant, huge, large |
| Main Entry: | lesser |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, secondary |
Synonyms: |
a notch under, bottom, bush, bush-league, dinky, insignificant, less important, low, lower, minor, minor-league, nether, second-fiddle, second-string, slighter, small, small-fry, small-time, subjacent, subordinate, third-string, undersized |
Antonyms: |
greater, higher, major, superior |
| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small in size, amount |
Synonyms: |
Lilliputian, babyish, bantam, brief, cramped, diminutive, dinky, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hardly any, hasty, immature, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infant, infinitesimal, insufficient, junior, light, limited, meager, microscopic, mini, miniature, minute, not big, not large, peanut, petite, scant, short, short-lived, shrimpy, shriveled, skimpy, slight, snub, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, toy, truncated, undersized, undeveloped, wee, wizened, young |
Antonyms: |
big, enormous, giant, great, huge, immense, large, massive |
| Main Entry: | miniscule/minuscule |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiny, very small |
Synonyms: |
Lilliputian, diminutive, dwarf, infinitesimal, itsy-bitsy, little, meager, microscopic, mini, miniature, minute, pint-sized, puny, short, slight, small-scale, stunted, teensy, teeny, trivial, undersized, wee |
| Main Entry: | puny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small, insignificant |
Synonyms: |
diminutive, feeble, fragile, frail, half-pint, inconsequential, inferior, infirm, little, measly, minor, niggling, nothing, paltry, peanut, peewee, petty, picayune, piddling, pint-sized, runt, shrimp, small time, small-fry, stunted, tiny, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unconsequential, underfed, undersized, undeveloped, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, weakly, wee, worthless, zero*, zilch |
Antonyms: |
big, giant, huge, large |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abridged |
Synonyms: |
abbreviate, abbreviated, aphoristic, bare, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, compendiary, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, curtailed, curtate, cut short, cut to the bone, decreased, decurtate, diminished, epigrammatic, fleeting, in a nutshell, laconic, lessened, little, momentary, not protracted, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, shortened, succinct, summarized, summary, terse, undersized, unprolonged, unsustained |
Antonyms: |
large, lengthy, long, unabridged |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not tall |
Synonyms: |
abbreviated, chunky, close to the ground, compact, diminutive, little, low, not long, petite, pint-sized, pocket, pocket-sized, runty, sawed-off, skimpy, slight, small, squat, squatty, stocky, stubby, stunted, thick, thickset, tiny, undersized, wee |
Antonyms: |
high, lengthy, long, tall |
| Main Entry: | small |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiny in size, quantity |
Synonyms: |
baby, bantam, bitty, cramped, diminutive, humble, immature, inadequate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insufficient, limited, little, meager, microscopic, mini, miniature, minuscule, minute, modest, narrow, paltry, petite, petty, picayune, piddling, pint-sized, pitiful, pocket-sized, poor, puny, runty, scanty, scrubby, short, shrimp, slight, small-scale, stunted, teensy, teeny, toy, trifling, trivial, undersized, unpretentious, wee, young |
Antonyms: |
big, enormous, generous, huge, immense, large |