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Small

adjective

(compar. smaller; superl. smallest)

1.

Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent. Synonym: little. "A little house" , "A small car" , "A little (or small) group" Antonyms: big, large.

2.

Limited in size or scope. Synonyms: minor, modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small-scale. "A newspaper with a modest circulation" , "Small-scale plans" , "A pocket-size country"

3.

(of children and animals) young, immature. Synonym: little. "Small children"

4.

Slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope.

5.

Low or inferior in station or quality. Synonyms: humble, low, lowly, modest. "A lowly parish priest" , "A modest man of the people" , "Small beginnings"

6.

Lowercase. Synonyms: little, minuscule. "Small a" , "E.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

7.

(of a voice) faint. Synonym: little. "A still small voice"

8.

Have fine or very small constituent particles.

9.

Not large but sufficient in size or amount. Synonym: modest. "Modest inflation" , "Helped in my own small way"

10.

Made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth). Synonyms: belittled, diminished.

noun

1.

The slender part of the back.

2.

A garment size for a small person.

adverb

1.

On a small scale. Antonym: big.

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"Small" Quotes from Famous Books

... in his eternal love, patience, sweetness; in his shining face, never averted. It is because I cannot be disappointed on account of this belief. To stand and wait after doing all that is legitimate is my instinct, my best wisdom, my inspiration; and I always hear the still, small voice at last. If man would not babble so much, we could much oftener hear God. The lesson of my life has been patience. It has only made me feel the more humble that God has been so beyond count benignant to me. I have been cushioned and pillowed with tender love from the cradle. ...

— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

... so unsocial to Christians, e'en let him take the next stall to Isaac the Jew's.—Anwold," said he to the torchbearer, "carry the Pilgrim to the southern cell.—I give you good-night," he added, "Sir Palmer, with small thanks ...

— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... There were three other doorways opening from this apartment. She could hear Janet rattling dishes and pans, so the way she had gone led into the kitchen. The other two doors she found gave entrance to small bedrooms, neither having egress other than through the living room. The furniture in all the rooms was cheap and tawdry ...

— Mary Louise Solves a Mystery • L. Frank Baum

... her rag doll neatly wedged in a corner of their trunk. Ernest was not overlooked either. When he unpacked at Annapolis, his recently acquired New York roommate was decidedly amazed to see him draw forth a small, pink stocking from the upper tray and a little later, a soiled woolly sheep along with his shirts. Ernest found his explanations about a baby niece received rather incredulously until a choice packet containing half a doughnut, a much-mutilated peach, two green ...

— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... beans, helping himself with his fingers, forcing himself to swallow the very last morsel he could choke down, before he took the coffee pot from its hiding-place. His eyelids fell, and with a gasping breath he put it to his lips. Then he summoned all his will power and took two small swallows. ...

— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly

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