| 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 |
| Main Entry: | small |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unimportant |
Synonyms: |
bush-league, inadequate, inconsiderable, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, lesser, light, limited, lower, mean, minor, minor-league, minute, narrow, negligible, paltry, petty, secondary, set, small-fry, small-time, trifling, trivial, unessential |
Antonyms: |
distinguished, excellent, famous, fine, important, untrivial |
| Main Entry: | small |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, nasty |
Synonyms: |
base, grudging, ignoble, illiberal, limited, little, mean, narrow, petty, selfish, set, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
benevolent, broad-minded, considerate, giving, kind |
| Main Entry: | smallest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | minimal |
Synonyms: |
basal, basic, essential, fundamental, least, least possible, littlest, lowest, minimum, nominal, token |
| Main Entry: | baby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miniature |
Synonyms: |
babyish, diminutive, dwarf, little, midget, mini, minute, petite, small, tiny, wee, youthful |
Antonyms: |
big, giant, large |
| Main Entry: | brief |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short, compressed |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, bluff, blunt, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, compendiary, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, hasty, laconic, limited, little, pithy, sharp, short and sweet, skimpy, small, snippy, succinct, surly, terse, to the point |
Antonyms: |
lengthy, long |
| Main Entry: | cramped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | congested, overcrowded |
Synonyms: |
awkward, circumscribed, close, closed in, confined, crabbed, crowded, hemmed in, illegible, incommodious, indecipherable, irregular, jammed in, little, minute, narrow, packed, pent, restricted, small, squeezed, tight, tiny, tucked up, two-by-four, uncomfortable |
Antonyms: |
free, open, uncongested, uncramped, uncrowded, uninhibited, unobstructed |
| Main Entry: | diminutive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiny, petite |
Synonyms: |
Lilliputian, bantam, bitsy, bitty, button, little, midget, mini, miniature, minute, peewee, pint-sized, pocket, pocket-sized, small, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, undersize, wee, weeny |
| Notes: | Diminutive words can be literal or metaphorical, are often terms of endearment or affection, familiarity or intimacy, but sometimes also suggest condescension or dismissal. The contrasting word form is augmentative, whose general meaning is 'large,' often implying awkwardness or ugliness, as in eat up, hurry up. Augmentatives are common in Latinate languages. In English, augmentative words are generally formed by the addition of augmentative affixes. |
Antonyms: |
big, huge, large, tall |
| Main Entry: | dwarf |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miniature, tiny |
Synonyms: |
baby, diminutive, low, petite, pocket, small, undersized |
Antonyms: |
big, giant, huge, large |
| Main Entry: | exiguous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scanty |
Synonyms: |
bare, confined, diminutive, inadequate, limited, little, meager, narrow, negligible, paltry, petty, poor, restricted, skimpy, slender, slight, small, spare, sparse, tenuous, thin, tiny |
Antonyms: |
plenty |