Synonyms of small

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adjective

1

as in little

of a size that is less than average

a small cat who never weighed more than five pounds

Synonyms & Similar Words

• little
• diminutive
• pocket
• tiny
• fine
• slight
• smallish
• miniature
• dwarf
• sparse
• puny
• dinky
• slender
• mini
• pocket-size
• undersized
• undersize
• dwarfish
• poor
• pygmy
• spare
• minuscule
• subnormal
• half-pint
• Lilliputian
• toylike
• pocket-sized
• miniaturized
• lacking
• microscopic
• stunted
• pint-sized
• shrimpy
• pint-size
• microscopical
• micro
• bantam
• insufficient
• teeny
• infinitesimal
• inadequate
• toy
• slim
• scarce
• teensy
• bitty
• wee
• meager
• weeny
• scrubby
• minim
• meagre
• scant
• skimpy
• minute
• little bitty
• scanty
• inappreciable
• pinpoint
• weensy
• stingy
• teeny-weeny
• wanting
• teensy-weensy
• runty
• capsule
• deficient
• runtish
• minikin
• niggardly
• bite-size
• bite-sized
• skimp

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• large
• big
• substantial
• sizeable
• considerable
• sizable
• great
• massive
• oversized
• huge
• handsome
• grand
• outsized
• enormous
• goodly
• vast
• bulky
• gigantic
• giant
• oversize
• tidy
• outsize
• whopping
• husky
• tremendous
• voluminous
• hefty
• immense
• mountainous
• largish
• colossal
• gross
• monumental
• mammoth
• gargantuan
• prodigious
• generous
• monolithic
• humongous
• monstrous
• cavernous
• ample
• stupendous
• appreciable
• heroic
• abundant
• jumbo
• biggish
• staggering
• healthy
• galactic
• plentiful
• liberal
• titanic
• copious
• wide
• herculean
• boxcar
• bountiful
• broad
• cyclopean
• thick
• Himalayan
• overscaled
• king-sized
• king-size
• overscale
• whacking
• fat
• plenteous
• hulking
• humungous
• elephantine
• adequate
• sufficient
• infinite
• heroical
• enough
• Brobdingnagian
• cosmic
• leviathan
• pharaonic
• immeasurable
• incalculable
• boundless
• Bunyanesque
• cosmical

2

as in off

small in degree

your chances of winning the lottery are so small that it's best not to count on it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• off
• slim
• slight
• outside
• negligible
• remote
• fragile
• tiny
• marginal
• minimal
• minor
• little
• frail

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• large
• good
• great
• significant
• distinct
• substantial
• considerable
• sizable
• sizeable
• healthy
• respectable
• goodly
• largish
• tidy

3

as in minor

lacking importance

reluctant to bring such a small matter to the boss's attention

Synonyms & Similar Words

• minor
• little
• slight
• trivial
• insignificant
• unimportant
• worthless
• negligible
• inconsiderable
• trifling
• incidental
• inconsequential
• petty
• minute
• frivolous
• foolish
• small-fry
• Mickey Mouse
• nugatory
• neither here nor there
• fiddling
• one-horse
• obscure
• anonymous
• small-time
• unknown
• jerkwater
• paltry
• nameless
• nickel-and-dime
• uncelebrated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• major
• big
• important
• substantial
• significant
• meaningful
• momentous
• weighty
• fatal
• dominant
• consequential
• decisive
• principal
• prominent
• eventful
• material
• chief
• remarkable
• outstanding
• impressive
• distinctive
• valuable
• fateful
• exceptional
• great
• overriding
• worthy
• overbearing
• worthwhile
• unfrivolous
• distinguished
• basic
• famous
• eminent
• prestigious
• fundamental
• key
• illustrious
• essential
• notorious
• overmastering
• renowned
• all-important
• preeminent

4

as in petty

not broad or open in views or opinions

townspeople who were helpful to one another but who also could be small and intolerant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• petty
• parochial
• narrow
• little
• provincial
• insular
• stubborn
• sectarian
• Lilliputian
• narrow-minded
• picayune
• rigid
• limited
• small-minded
• illiberal
• partial
• partisan
• obstinate
• wrongheaded
• bigoted
• ironbound
• discriminatory
• biased
• obdurate
• opinionated
• discriminating
• intolerant
• reactionary
• stodgy
• unsophisticated
• inflexible
• old-fashioned
• dogmatic
• unyielding
• dogmatical
• straitlaced
• hidebound
• set
• opinionative
• prejudiced
• jaundiced
• one-sided
• stuffy
• straightlaced
• brassbound
• hick

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• open
• liberal
• receptive
• cosmopolitan
• tolerant
• catholic
• objective
• impartial
• unbiased
• unprejudiced
• nonpartisan
• broad-minded
• open-minded
• freethinking

smallness

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noun

1

as in diminutiveness

the quality or state of being little in size

my grandmother was surprised by the smallness of the latest electronic devices

Synonyms & Similar Words

• diminutiveness
• fineness
• littleness
• slightness
• deficiency
• puniness
• minuteness
• tininess
• sparseness
• meagerness
• slenderness
• scarcity
• slimness
• sparsity
• spareness
• inadequacy
• stinginess
• scantiness
• petiteness
• poorness
• inadequateness
• scarceness
• skimpiness
• scantness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• bigness
• largeness
• greatness
• magnitude
• immensity
• magnitude
• hugeness
• vastness
• enormity
• grandness
• enormousness
• grossness
• extensiveness
• extravagance
• generosity
• abundance
• excessiveness
• liberality
• adequacy
• immenseness
• extremeness
• sufficiency
• prodigiousness
• copiousness
• stupendousness
• healthiness
• bountifulness
• heaviness
• ampleness
• mountainousness
• massiveness
• bulkiness
• weightiness
• immoderacy
• voluminousness
• heftiness

2

as in negligibility

the quality or state of being unimportant

regardless of its smallness, each act of kindness is ultimately rewarded

Synonyms & Similar Words

• negligibility
• pettiness
• insignificance
• littleness
• emptiness
• inconsequence
• slightness
• inconsequentiality
• triviality
• immateriality
• nullity
• inconsiderableness
• worthlessness
• insignificancy
• valuelessness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• importance
• significance
• moment
• magnitude
• weight
• consequence
• bigness
• import
• value
• weightiness
• substance
• worth

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a small amount

a tiny amount

an insignificant amount

a minimal amount

a trivial amount

a modest amount

a small town

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a rural town

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a rustic town

small changes

minor changes

subtle changes

slight changes

incremental changes

trivial changes

small pieces

minuscule pieces

microscopic pieces

manageable pieces

little pieces

fine pieces

Phrases Containing small

• small arm
• small beer
• small change
• small talk