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Synonyms for small

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for small

notably below average in amount, size, or scope

not yet large in size because of incomplete growth

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not broad or elevated in scope or understanding

not irritating, strident, or loud

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Synonyms for small

the slender part of the back

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a garment size for a small person

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limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

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limited in size or scope

(of children and animals) young, immature

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slight or limited

low or inferior in station or quality

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lowercase

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(of a voice) faint

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have fine or very small constituent particles

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not large but sufficient in size or amount

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made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

on a small scale

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"What deh hell, Jimmie?" he asked of the small champion.
A few stones were thrown at long distances, and words of challenge passed between small warriors.
Because thou art gentle and of upright character, thou sayest: "Blameless are they for their small existence." But their circumscribed souls think: "Blamable is all great existence."
Thus, a large company could sell at a loss for a longer period than a small company, and so drive the small company out of business.
Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.
This she placed before the small servant, ordering her to sit down before it, and then, taking up a great carving-knife, made a mighty show of sharpening it upon the carving-fork.
"'This is a very important matter, Small,' he said, at last.
He chose three companions for his journey, put up a small stock of necessaries in the most portable form, and selected five horses and mules for themselves and their baggage.
80 to 90 feet, within the Indo-human period: but such small elevations could have had little power in deflecting the moisture-bringing atmospheric currents.
The question resulting is, whether small or extensive republics are more favorable to the election of proper guardians of the public weal; and it is clearly decided in favor of the latter by two obvious considerations:
Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.
Then the peasants were vexed that the small peasant should have thus outwitted them, wanted to take vengeance on him, and accused him of this treachery before the major.
I have said a large genus, because we have seen in the second chapter, that on an average more of the species of large genera vary than of small genera; and the varying species of the large genera present a greater number of varieties.
She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite.
The task was an arduous one and required the better part of a month, though he built but one small room.