as in tiny
very small in size
had to look closely to see the teeny splinter in her foot
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Recent Examples of teeny
His job is to help fight these teeny-tiny menaces.
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
One look was an ultra-cinching sheer corset minidress paired with lace-up heels and the other was a Dilara Findikoglu design with a teeny beaded bra as a top.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Glam was kept bronzed, with oil-spill black talon nails changed to a sheer satiny pink, and her hair slicked back in a tight bun, extra-long, teeny, tiny braids let down later.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Tel Aviv’s strip of beach is teeny but vital and vibey nonetheless.
—Noa Tishby, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
One look was an ultra-cinching sheer corset minidress paired with lace-up heels and the other was a Dilara Findikoglu design with a teeny beaded bra as a top.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Glam was kept bronzed, with oil-spill black talon nails changed to a sheer satiny pink, and her hair slicked back in a tight bun, extra-long, teeny, tiny braids let down later.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Tel Aviv’s strip of beach is teeny but vital and vibey nonetheless.
—Noa Tishby, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teeny
Adjective
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At the previous World Cup in 2022, hosted by tiny Qatar, all of England’s games were in Doha or just outside that city.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Nanotubes are ultra-small cylindrical structures, so tiny that thousands could fit across the width of a human hair.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
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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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“Teeny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teeny. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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