Small

Adjective

 * 1) Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
 * A small serving of ice cream.
 * A small group.
 * He made us all feel small.
 * 1)  Young, as a child.
 * Remember when the children were small?
 * 1)  Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.

Synonyms

 * little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also Thesaurus:tiny
 * little, wee, young
 * lowercase, minuscule

Antonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:large
 * capital, big, generous, large
 * adult, grown-up, old
 * big, capital, majuscule, uppercase

Derived terms

 * small arm
 * small arms
 * small beer
 * small calorie
 * small-cell lung cancer
 * small change
 * small claims court
 * smallclothes
 * smaller European elm bark beetle
 * small forward
 * small fry
 * smallgoods
 * smallholder
 * smallholding
 * small hours
 * small intestine
 * smallish


 * small-minded
 * smallmouth
 * smallmouth bass
 * smallmouth black bass
 * small potatoes
 * smallpox
 * smalls
 * small-scale
 * small screen
 * small stuff
 * smallsword
 * small talk
 * small-time
 * small wonder
 * twice as small
 * twice as small as

Adverb

 * 1) In a small fashion.

Derived terms

 * writ small

Noun

 * 1) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
 * 2)  Underclothes.

Derived terms

 * small of the back

Adverbs for Small
gracefully; pleasantly; prettily; infinitesimally; minutely; extraordinarily; pitifully; pathetically; miserably; compactly; handily; conveniently; daintily; delicately; miraculously; unbelievably.

Thesaurus
Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, airy, arrant, ascetic, atrocious, attenuate, attenuated, austere, authoritarian, baby, back-burner, bantam, base, beggarly, bigot, bigoted, borne, boyish, cheap, cheesy, close, closed, commonplace, constricted, contemptible, cramped, creedbound, crummy, cursory, deaf, deaf to reason, debased, deficient, degraded, delicate, depraved, depthless, despicable, diaphanous, diluted, diminished, diminutive, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dispensable, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, ethereal, everyday, execrable, exiguous, fanatical, few, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flagrant, flat, flimsy, footling, foul, frail, frugal, fulsome, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, grave, gross, grudging, half-pint, heinous, hidebound, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, illiberal, immaterial, immature, imperfect, impoverished, in a nutshell, in miniature, in the small, inadequate, inappreciable, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant, insubstantial, insufficient, insular, irrelevant, jejune, knee-high, lacy, lean, least, lesser, light, limited, little, little-minded, low, low-down, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen, maladroit, mangy, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, midget, mingy, mini, miniature, minor, minuscule, minute, miserable, miserly, misty, modest, monkey, monstrous, mundane, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nefarious, negligible, niggardly, no great shakes, nonessential, not comparable, not in it, not vital, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, one-horse, out of it, paltry, papery, parochial, parsimonious, peewee, petit, petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, plain, pocket-sized, poky, poor, provincial, puny, purblind, rank, rare, rarefied, reduced, reptilian, scabby, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, secondary, selfish, shabby, shallow, shoddy, short, shortsighted, simple, skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slightly, slim, slimmish, slinky, small-minded, small-scale, smallish, smally, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation, stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, straitlaced, stuffy, stunted, subsistence, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike, teachable, technical, teeny, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tight, tight-fisted, tiny, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, two-dimensional, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized, undistinguished, unessential, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant, unimpressive, uninspired, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unnourishing, unnutritious, unoriginal, unpretentious, unprofound, unsatisfactory, unskillful, vague, vile, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wee, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy, wretched, young

Pronunciation




Etymology
From smal:, from  smæl:, from, from. Cognate with smel:,  smal:,  schmal:,  små:,  malus:,  малый:.

Adjective

 * Albanian: i vogël
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian: (ṣuğɑyyɑr)
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܙܥܘܪܐ (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro)
 * Hebrew: זעורא (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro)
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azeri: kiçik
 * Belarusian: маленькі, малы
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: သေး, နုပ်
 * Catalan: petit
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Min Nan:
 * Crimean Tatar: kiçik, kiçkene
 * Czech:
 * Danish: lille, liden
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: sue
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: mikra
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: តូច
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:


 * Lao: ນ້ອຽ
 * Latin:, paulus
 * Latvian: mazs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: kecil
 * Mapudungun: pichi, pici
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਛੋੱਟਾ
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: pitschen
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic: beag
 * Serbo-Croatian: мал, mal
 * Sicilian: nicu
 * Sinhalese: කුඩා
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian: mały
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చిన్న (chinna)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: چھوٹا
 * Vietnamese:, nhỏ
 * Welsh:, ,
 * West Frisian: lyts


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, պստիկ,
 * Belarusian: маленькі,
 * Catalan: petit
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: νέος (néos)
 * Hungarian: kicsi
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:


 * Mapudungun: pichi
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian:, برنا
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: giuven
 * Russian: ,
 * Sicilian:, giùvini
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: చిన్న (chinna)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Welsh:, , ifanc
 * West Frisian: lyts, jong


 * Armenian:
 * Hungarian: kis
 * Portuguese:


 * Romanian: mici (litere)
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: minudik

Anagrams

 * malls