UNDERSIZED Synonyms: 158 Similar and Opposite Words

undersized

adjective

ˌən-dər-ˈsīzd

variants also undersize

as in diminutive

of a size that is less than average though a football all-star in high school, he was just a mediocre, undersized player at the college level

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Recent Examples of undersized An oversized system cools too quickly without properly removing humidity, while an undersized unit runs constantly and struggles to maintain temperature. —

New Atlas, 9 June 2026 Rugs That Are Too Small Rooms featuring undersized area rugs are among interior designers' most universal design pet peeves, and the dining room is no exception. —

Cori Sears, The Spruce, 1 June 2026 Point Loma’s middles dominated, with 6-foot-5 Trevor Rutt and 6-4 Waylon Lundeen taking advantage of the undersized Cardinals. —

Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2026 Wildfire smoke makes every purchase feel urgent, but rushing often leads people to buy undersized units, weak filters or expensive systems that don’t fit their actual space. —

Ryan Brennan may 19, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for undersized

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Adjective

The diminutive restaurant is about as no-nonsense inside as out.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Even still, most of its diminutive size was just plastic packaging, encasing the far tinier, unfathomably dense network of billions of transistors embedded in silicon.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 June 2026