n. a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness

adj. very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"

adj. contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"

adj. lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

adj. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

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"

adj. of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"

adj. (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"

adj. low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"

adj. delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"

adj. small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel"

adj. atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"

adj. small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"

adj. thin in thickness or diameter; "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print"

adj. used of small deformed creatures

adj. half the usual or regular size

adj. infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"

adj. having or being distinguished by diminutive size: "the least bittern"

adj. extremely small in scale or scope or capability

adj. being on a very small scale; "a miniature camera"

adj. very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"

adj. (used especially of persons) of inferior size

adj. small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"

adj. small or little relative to something else

adj. rather small

adj. created or drawn on a small scale; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model"

adj. smaller than normal for its kind

adj. of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"

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"

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"