as in minuscule
very small in size
a soft drink with only an infinitesimal amount of caffeine
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Recent Examples of infinitesimal
The mass is given an infinitesimal push, parallel to the rail.
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Kevin Roose, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Further, even if the U.S. dominated the market, the impact would be infinitesimal: the market is currently a grand $3.6 billion a year.
—Michael Lynch, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Withdrawing American forces from Syria would do little to change Washington’s overall military posture, as the current deployment to Syria represents an infinitesimal fraction of the United States’ 614,000 active-duty and reserve soldiers and marines.
—Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2025
By infinitesimal degrees, the actor reveals his character’s vulnerability, building to the emotional wreckage of a sobering visit to Majdanek concentration camp.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Kevin Roose, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Further, even if the U.S. dominated the market, the impact would be infinitesimal: the market is currently a grand $3.6 billion a year.
—Michael Lynch, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Withdrawing American forces from Syria would do little to change Washington’s overall military posture, as the current deployment to Syria represents an infinitesimal fraction of the United States’ 614,000 active-duty and reserve soldiers and marines.
—Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2025
By infinitesimal degrees, the actor reveals his character’s vulnerability, building to the emotional wreckage of a sobering visit to Majdanek concentration camp.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infinitesimal
Adjective
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Other than minuscule amounts of state funding in some cases and a smattering of private donations, tribal colleges that lose any federal funding have few other sources of income.—
Matt Krupnick,
ProPublica,
10 Mar. 2025
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The birds are already minuscule and delicate, and many of the ones Masear works with are babies whose mothers have disappeared or died, which puts them in even greater peril.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears.—
Cory Turner,
NPR,
17 Mar. 2025
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Pollen Pollen is a powdery substance made of tiny grains that plants release to propagate.—
Nancy LeBrun,
Verywell Health,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But humans are generally unaware of the rich microscopic world beneath our feet, in part because until relatively recently, scientists had few tools to accurately catalog such tiny species.—
Paulina Rowińska,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Researchers have compared this survival strategy to that of tardigrades, microscopic creatures famous for enduring the vacuum of space.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Infinitesimal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infinitesimal. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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