Nouns (1)
bantam
n. any of various small breeds of fowl
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (5)
diminutive, midget, lilliputian, petite, tiny
adj. very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
Fuzzynyms (29)
small, little, petty, small-minded
adj. contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
small, little, minuscule
adj. lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
small, little
adj. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
peddling, small, lilliputian, little, petty, trivial, fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune
adj. (informal) small and of little importance; "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"
small, peanut, little, insignificant
adj. of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"
small, little
adj. (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
short
adj. low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"
fine, dainty, exquisite
adj. delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
Synonyms (28)
dinky
adj. small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel"
dwarf, dwarfish
adj. atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"
elfin
adj. small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"
fine
adj. thin in thickness or diameter; "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print"
gnomish
adj. used of small deformed creatures
half-size
adj. half the usual or regular size
minute, infinitesimal, microscopic
adj. infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
least, littlest, smallest
adj. having or being distinguished by diminutive size: "the least bittern"
micro
adj. extremely small in scale or scope or capability
miniature
adj. being on a very small scale; "a miniature camera"
minuscule, miniscule
adj. very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
puny, runty, shrimpy
adj. (used especially of persons) of inferior size
slim, slender
adj. small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"
smaller, littler
adj. small or little relative to something else
smallish
adj. rather small
small-scale
adj. created or drawn on a small scale; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model"
undersize, undersized
adj. smaller than normal for its kind
Antonyms (23)
giant, massive, elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo, massy
adj. of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"
marvelous, marvellous, rattling, fantastic, tremendous, howling, phenomenal, terrific, wonderful, wondrous
adj. extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
extreme, Olympian, great, exceptional, prodigious, exceeding, surpassing
adj. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
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