Synonyms: little
Definition: a small amount or duration
Usage: he accepted the little they gave him
Similar words: small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
Definition: an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
Synonyms: little
Definition: small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
Usage: a nice little job; bless your little heart; my dear little mother; a sweet little deal; I'm tired of your petty little schemes; filthy little tricks; what a nasty little situation
Similar words: emotional
Definition: of more than usual emotion
Usage: his behavior was highly emotional
Synonyms: trivial, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, lilliputian, little, footling, fiddling
Definition: (informal) small and of little importance
Usage: a fiddling sum of money; a footling gesture; our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war; a little (or small) matter; a dispute over niggling details; limited to petty enterprises; piffling efforts; giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
Similar words: unimportant
Definition: not important
Usage: a relatively unimportant feature of the system; the question seems unimportant
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
Similar words: atomic
Definition: immeasurably small
Similar words: subatomic
Definition: of smaller than atomic dimensions
Similar words: tiny, bantam, lilliputian, midget, diminutive, petite, flyspeck
Definition: very small
Usage: diminutive in stature; a lilliputian chest of drawers; her petite figure; tiny feet; the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
Similar words: bittie, bitty, teensy, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny, teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, wee, weensy, weeny
Definition: (used informally) very small
Usage: a wee tot
Similar words: dinky
Definition: small and insignificant
Usage: we stayed in a dinky old hotel
Similar words: dwarfish
Definition: atypically small
Usage: dwarf tree; dwarf star
Definition: small and delicate
Usage: she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate; obsessed by things elfin and small
Similar words: gnomish
Definition: used of small deformed creatures
Similar words: half-size
Definition: half the usual or regular size
Similar words: infinitesimal, minute
Definition: infinitely or immeasurably small
Usage: two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm; reduced to a microscopic scale
Similar words: lesser
Definition: smaller in size or amount or value
Usage: the lesser powers of Europe; the lesser anteater
Similar words: microscopic, microscopical
Definition: so small as to be invisible without a microscope
Usage: differences were microscopic
Similar words: micro
Definition: extremely small in scale or scope or capability
Similar words: miniature
Definition: being on a very small scale
Usage: a miniature camera
Similar words: miniscule, minuscule
Definition: very small
Usage: a minuscule kitchen; a minuscule amount of rain fell
Similar words: olive-sized
Definition: about the size of an olive
Similar words: pocket-size, pocket-sized, pocketable
Definition: small enough to be carried in a garment pocket
Usage: pocket-size paperbacks
Similar words: puny, runty, shrimpy
Definition: (used especially of persons) of inferior size
Definition: small in quantity
Usage: slender wages; a slim chance of winning; a small surplus
Similar words: smaller, littler
Definition: small or little relative to something else
Similar words: smallish
Definition: rather small
Similar words: small-scale
Definition: created or drawn on a small scale
Usage: small-scale maps; a small-scale model
Similar words: undersize, undersized
Definition: smaller than normal for its kind
Definition: (of a voice) faint
Usage: a little voice; a still small voice
Synonyms: little, small, minuscule
Definition: lowercase
Usage: little a; small a; e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
Similar words: lowercase
Definition: relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case
Usage: lowercase letters; a and b and c etc
Definition: (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Usage: little rain fell in May; gave it little thought; little time is left; we still have little money; a little hope remained; there's slight chance that it will work; there's a slight chance it will work
Similar words: small
Definition: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
Usage: a series of death struggles with small time in between
Definition: (of children and animals) young, immature
Usage: what a big little boy you are; small children
Similar words: young, immature
Definition: (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
Usage: young people
Definition: low in stature; not tall
Usage: he was short and stocky; short in stature; a short smokestack; a little man
Similar words: low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy, dumpy, chunky
Definition: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
Usage: some people seem born to be square and chunky; a dumpy little dumpling of a woman; dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears; a little church with a squat tower; a squatty red smokestack; a stumpy ungainly figure
Similar words: compact, stocky, thick, thickset, heavyset
Definition: having a short and solid form or stature
Usage: a wrestler of compact build; he was tall and heavyset; stocky legs; a thickset young man
Similar words: half-length
Definition: representing only the upper half of the body
Usage: a half-length portrait
Similar words: runty, sawed-off, sawn-off, pint-size, pint-sized
Definition: well below average height
Similar words: short-stalked
Definition: of plants having relatively short stalks
Definition: short and fat