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pygmy
Synonyms and Antonyms of pygmy
- a pygmy elephant
bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, fine, half-pint, Lilliputian, little, pint-size (or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size (also pocket-sized), puny, shrimpy, slight, small, smallish, subnormal, toylike, undersized (also undersize)
runtish, runty, scrubby, stunted
bitty, inappreciable, infinitesimal, little bitty, micro, microscopic (also microscopical), mini, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minim, minuscule, minute, pinpoint, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee, weeny (also weensy)
meager (or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stingy
deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting
bite-size (also bite-sized), capsule
bulky, hefty, hulking, massive, voluminous
boxcar, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, cavernous, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, gross, Himalayan, herculean, heroic (also heroical), huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monolithic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pharaonic, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast
abundant, ample, appreciable, bountiful, copious, generous, healthy, liberal, plenteous, plentiful
boundless, cosmic (also cosmical), immeasurable, incalculable, infinite
Synonyms and Antonyms of pygmy
- hummingbirds may be the pygmies of the avian world, but what they lack in size they make up for in beauty
- regrettably, most of the candidates for the party's nomination that year were political pygmies
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