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small
Synonyms and Antonyms of small
- a small cat who never weighed more than five pounds
bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, fine, Lilliputian, little, pint-size (or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size (also pocket-sized), puny, pygmy, shrimpy, slight, smallish, subnormal, toylike, undersized (also undersize)
runtish, runty, scrubby, stunted
bitty, infinitesimal, micro, microscopic (also microscopical), mini, miniature, miniaturized, minuscule, minute, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee
bulky, hefty, hulking, massive, voluminous
cavernous, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, gross, herculean, heroic (also heroical), huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, mammoth, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast
- Your chances of winning the lottery are so small that it's best not to count on it.
- reluctant to bring such a small matter to the boss's attention
neither here nor there
- townspeople who were helpful to one another but who also could be small and intolerant
Synonym Discussion of small
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- a relatively small backyard
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- your pathetic little smile
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- diminutive bonsai plants
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- a minute amount of caffeine in the soda
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- tiny cracks formed in the painting
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- a dollhouse with miniature furnishings
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