as in tiny
very small in size
for years we lived in a teensy apartment that was the size of the proverbial broom closet
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Recent Examples of teensy
Hummingbirds are accustomed to feeding at patches of flowers, where each blossom contains just a teensy-tiny amount of life-giving nectar.
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John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
Cascades with an overloaded pack and had just slogged a mile up 1,000 vertical feet, pausing before the valley that would lead to a cirque, when Ms. Ultralight swept up silently behind me wearing minimalist trail-running shoes and a teensy pack.
—Will Taylor, Outside Online, 26 June 2022
That game was developed by the teensy two-person Swedish studio Dennaton Games and somehow went on to sell over 1.5 million copies.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2022
There are also a few teensy grains of zircon from Jack Hills, Australia, dated to about 4.4 billion years old.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2017
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John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
Cascades with an overloaded pack and had just slogged a mile up 1,000 vertical feet, pausing before the valley that would lead to a cirque, when Ms. Ultralight swept up silently behind me wearing minimalist trail-running shoes and a teensy pack.
—Will Taylor, Outside Online, 26 June 2022
That game was developed by the teensy two-person Swedish studio Dennaton Games and somehow went on to sell over 1.5 million copies.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2022
There are also a few teensy grains of zircon from Jack Hills, Australia, dated to about 4.4 billion years old.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teensy
Adjective
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From breezing through paperwork to avoiding unnecessary airport delays, this tiny travel hero proves that sometimes the simplest tools are the most important.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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But the movie only gives tiny little tastes of 1982 rock culture, and why Nebraska was so comically unsuitable for airplay.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The amount of space between garden soil particles is so minuscule that container plants struggle to send their roots into it and extract nutrients from it.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Nov. 2025
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Budgets for these projects are minuscule (generally, $100,000 to $300,000 per series), and platforms release a lot of them, experimenting to see what resonates with viewers.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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