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| 1. | [ adjective ] limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | |
| Synonyms: | little | |
| Examples: | "a little dining room" "a little house" "a small car" "a little (or small) group" a small voice" |
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| Related terms: | large large smaller bantam bantam infinitesimal least bittie bitty slender smallish small-scale elfin miniature half-size undersize half-size lesser dwarf pocket-size micro fine minuscule pocket-size puny gnomish dinky size | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] limited in size or scope | |
| Synonyms: | modest small-scale pocket-size pocket-sized minor | |
| Examples: | "a small business" "a newspaper with a modest circulation" "small-scale plans" "a pocket-size country" |
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| Related terms: | limited | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] low or inferior in station or quality | |
| Synonyms: | humble lowly modest low | |
| Examples: | "a humble cottage" "a lowly parish priest" "a modest man of the people" "small beginnings" |
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| Related terms: | inferior | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | |
| Synonyms: | little insignificant peanut | |
| Examples: | "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat" "peanut politicians" |
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| Related terms: | minor | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] not fully grown | |
| Synonyms: | little | |
| Examples: | "what a big little boy you are" "small children" |
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| Related terms: | young | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] too small to be seen except under a microscope | |
| Synonyms: | microscopical microscopic | |
| Related terms: | macroscopic subgross atomic subatomic | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] not large but sufficient in size or amount | |
| Synonyms: | modest | |
| Examples: | "a modest salary" "modest inflation" "helped in my own small way" |
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| Related terms: | moderate | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] (of a voice) faint | |
| Synonyms: | little | |
| Examples: | "a little voice" "a still small voice" |
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| Related terms: | soft | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | |
| Synonyms: | diminished belittled | |
| Examples: | "her comments made me feel small" |
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| Related terms: | decreased | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] lowercase | |
| Synonyms: | minuscule little | |
| Examples: | "little a" "small a" "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" |
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| Related terms: | lowercase | |
| 11. | [ noun ] (anatomy) the slender part of the back | |
| Related terms: | body_part back | |
| 12. | [ adjective ] contemptibly narrow in outlook | |
| Synonyms: | little small-minded petty | |
| Examples: | "petty little comments" "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" |
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| Related terms: | narrow-minded | |
| 13. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 556 | |
| 14. | [ adverb ] on a small scale | |
| Examples: | "think small" |
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| Related terms: | big | |
| 15. | [ adjective ] used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | |
| Synonyms: | tight mingy little miserly mean | |
| Examples: | "a mean person" "he left a miserly tip" |
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| Related terms: | stingy | |
| 16. | [ adjective ] have fine or very small constituent particles | |
| Examples: | "a small misty rain" |
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| Related terms: | fine | |
| 17. | [ adjective ] (archaic) slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope | |
| Examples: | "a series of death struggles with small time in between" |
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| Related terms: | archaism little | |
| 18. | [ noun ] (clothing) a garment size for a small person | |
| Related terms: | size | |
| Similar spelling: |
smalley smell Smeal Smale smelly Smelley Smola smilo smile Smail Smylie Smiley |
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