as in diminutive
having a small and thin body
—usually used to describe a woman or girl
She's petite and has short black hair. a petite young woman
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Recent Examples of petite
The tech would enable labels to more easily offer petite, plus-size and other specialized size ranges without rebuilding patterns from scratch.
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Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
19 June 2026
At Banana Republic, find limited-time deals on a linen wrap maxi skirt in three colors and both regular and petite sizing.
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Claire Peltier,
ABC News,
17 June 2026
The petite Hudson is equally enticing, focusing on somewhat more traditional items and smaller scale accessories excellent for host and housewarming presents.
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Shannon McMahon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 June 2026
But a petite option doesn’t need to feel like a design compromise.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
12 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for petite
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
19 June 2026
At Banana Republic, find limited-time deals on a linen wrap maxi skirt in three colors and both regular and petite sizing.
—
Claire Peltier,
ABC News,
17 June 2026
The petite Hudson is equally enticing, focusing on somewhat more traditional items and smaller scale accessories excellent for host and housewarming presents.
—
Shannon McMahon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 June 2026
But a petite option doesn’t need to feel like a design compromise.
—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
12 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for petite
Recent Examples of Synonyms for petite
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The diminutive restaurant is about as no-nonsense inside as out.
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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.
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Then again, that’s a smallish sample size and there were some true bangers in the years right before, so the jury is still out.
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By 1900, the Irish-speaking areas were a ragged patchwork of smallish standalone zones, clinging to the island’s western and southern shores.
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The Pines at Woodloch Hawley, Pennsylvania With activities for all ages—indoor and outdoor pools, bumper boats, mini golf, water skiing, archery, and seasonal snow tubing—there’s no shortage of fun at The Pines at Woodloch.
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The first photos showed her in a black lace bodysuit that revealed her bra and micro mini shorts below.
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Olah is a boyish, elfin prodigy who, at nineteen, met Amodei on his first visit to the Bay Area.
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That effort also brought back the rare frosted elfin butterfly for the first time in decades.
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These semi-dwarf shrubs have a nice, rounded form that maxes out at 4 or 5 feet wide and tall.
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Additionally, new facilities such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, are expected to discover more dwarf galaxies for researchers to study.
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Nano Nuclear Energy stock is poised to benefit as the nuclear power provider takes steps to commercialize its micro-modular reactor in the midst of the artificial intelligence power boom, according to Roth Capital Partners.
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Blink49 head of vertical content Tieren Hawkins is writing the micro drama.
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The tiny female hippo is already drawing comparisons to the beloved Moo Deng, the Thai baby pygmy hippo who became a global sensation in 2024.
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Hopefully, this will help determine whether they’re sparked by an eruption from a single neutron star, or when two of these tiny but massive bodies collide.
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After selling baklava at the Stock Show, the Unlus rented their first resraurant space in a small Eighth Avenue food hall.
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The Virgo moon asks you to focus on the small tasks.
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“Petite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/petite. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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