Antonyms for small

Antonyms for (adj) small

Main entry: little, small

Definition: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

Usage: a little dining room; a little house; a small car; a little (or small) group

Antonyms: large, big

Definition: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent


Antonyms: majuscule

Definition: of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries


Antonyms: greater

Definition: greater in size or importance or degree


Main entry: little, small

Definition: (of children and animals) young, immature

Usage: what a big little boy you are; small children

Antonyms: aged, elderly

Definition: people who are old collectively


Antonyms: old

Definition: (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age


Antonyms: mature

Definition: having reached full natural growth or development


Antonyms: mature

Definition: characteristic of maturity


Main entry: minor, modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale

Definition: limited in size or scope

Usage: a small business; a newspaper with a modest circulation; small-scale plans; a pocket-size country

Antonyms: limitless, unlimited

Definition: having no limits in range or scope


Main entry: humble, small, low, lowly, modest

Definition: low or inferior in station or quality

Usage: a humble cottage; a lowly parish priest; a modest man of the people; small beginnings

Antonyms: superior, superordinate, higher-up

Definition: one of greater rank or station or quality


Antonyms: superior

Definition: of or characteristic of high rank or importance


Antonyms: superior

Definition: of high or superior quality or performance


Antonyms: superior

Definition: having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit


Main entry: little, small, minuscule

Definition: lowercase

Usage: little a; small a; e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters

Antonyms: majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital, capital letter

Definition: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis


Antonyms: uppercase

Definition: relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case


Main entry: modest, small

Definition: not large but sufficient in size or amount

Usage: a modest salary; modest inflation; helped in my own small way

Antonyms: immoderate

Definition: beyond reasonable limits


Main entry: small

Definition: have fine or very small constituent particles

Usage: a small misty rain

Antonyms: harsh, coarse

Definition: of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles


Main entry: small

Definition: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope

Usage: a series of death struggles with small time in between

Antonyms: large, big

Definition: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent


Antonyms: much

Definition: (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent


Main entry: little, small

Definition: (of a voice) faint

Usage: a little voice; a still small voice

Antonyms: hard

Definition: resisting weight or pressure


Antonyms: hard

Definition: dispassionate


Antonyms: hard

Definition: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum


Antonyms: hard, concentrated

Definition: (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source


Antonyms: loud

Definition: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity


Antonyms: hardened

Definition: protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)


Main entry: belittled, small, diminished

Definition: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

Usage: her comments made me feel small

Antonyms: increased

Definition: made greater in size or amount or degree


Antonyms for (adv) small

Main entry: small

Definition: on a small scale

Usage: think small

Antonyms: big

Definition: on a grand scale


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