Synonyms of the word

small

• adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
• adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
• adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
• adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
• adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
• adv. In a small fashion.
• adv. In or into small pieces.
• adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
• n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
• v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

bantam

• n. any of several small chickens, especially one that is a miniature version of another.
• n. (sports) an age division between peewee and midget.
• adj. small or miniature.
• adj. spirited or aggressive.

belittled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of belittle.

bittie

• n. (slang, often plural) bitch, girl, woman, especially one that is promiscuous.
• adj. Alternative form of bitty (“very small”).

bitty

• adj. Containing bits; fragmented.
• adj. Very small.
• n. Alternative form of bittie.

decreased

• v. simple past tense and past participle of decrease.

diminished

• v. simple past tense and past participle of diminish.
• adj. lessened, reduced.
• adj. (music) reduced by a semitone.

diminutive

• adj. Very small.
• adj. Serving to diminish.
• adj. (grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
• n. (grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

dinky

• adj. (informal, Britain) Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
• adj. (informal, US) Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable.
• acr. Double income, no kids yet. Said of a relationship.

dwarfish

• adj. Like a dwarf; being especially small.
• adj. Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.

elfin

• n. An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land.
• n. A little urchin or child.
• adj. Relating to or resembling an elf, especially in its tiny size or features.

elflike

• adj. Resembling an elf or some aspect of one.

fine

• adj. (heading) Of subjective quality.
• adj. (heading) Of objective quality.
• adj. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
• adj. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
• adv. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
• adv. Well, nicely, in a positive way.
• adv. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
• adv. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to…
• n. Fine champagne; French brandy.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
• v. (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
• v. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
• v. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
• v. To change by fine gradations.
• v. (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
• n. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
• v. (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To pay a fine.
• n. (music) The end of a musical composition.
• n. (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
• n. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
• n. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
• n. (Britain, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission…

flyspeck

• n. Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.
• n. (by extension) Anything tiny or insignificant.
• v. To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color.
• v. To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.

gnomish

• adj. resembling a gnome; gnomelike.
• adj. aphoristic.

humble

• adj. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
• adj. Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
• v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
• v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of;…
• adj. hornless.

immature

• adj. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
• adj. Childish in behavior, not mature.
• n. An immature member of a species.

inferior

• adj. of lower quality.
• adj. of lower rank.
• adj. located below.
• adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below…
• adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
• adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
• adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon.
• n. a person of lower stature to another.

infinitesimal

• adj. Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.
• adj. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit.
• adj. (informal) Very small.
• n. (mathematics) A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it…

itsy-bitsy

• adj. (colloquial, often childish or humorous) Very small; minuscule.

itty-bitty

• adj. Alternative form of itsy-bitsy.

lesser

• adj. comparative form of little: more little.
• adj. of two things, the smaller in size, value, importance etc.
• n. a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.

lilliputian

• n. A very small person or being.
• adj. Very small, diminutive.
• adj. Trivial, petty.

limited

• v. simple past tense and past participle of limit.
• adj. With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
• adj. Of numbers, amounts, data: poor, small, felt to be insufficient.
• n. (railroad) A train that only halts at a limited number of stops.

little

• adj. Small in size.
• adj. Insignificant, trivial.
• adj. Very young.
• adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
• adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers…
• adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
• adj. Short in duration; brief.
• adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
• adv. Not much.
• adv. Not at all.

littler

• adj. comparative form of little: more little.

low

• adj. In a position comparatively close to the ground.
• adj. Small in height.
• adj. Situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation.
• adj. Depressed, sad.
• adj. Not high in amount or quantity.
• adj. Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.
• adj. Quiet; soft; not loud.
• adj. Despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar.
• adj. Lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak.
• adj. Being near the equator.
• adj. Humble in character or status.
• adj. Simple in complexity or development.
• adj. Designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear.
• adj. Articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette.
• adj. (phonetics) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
• adj. (archaic) Not rich, highly seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple.
• n. Something that is low; a low point.
• n. A depressed mood or situation.
• n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression.
• n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
• n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
• n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.
• adv. Close to the ground.
• adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
• adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
• adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
• adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
• adv. In a time approaching our own.
• adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
• v. obsolete simple past tense of laugh.
• v. (intransitive) To moo.
• n. (countable, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
• n. (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
• n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.

lowercase

• n. Alternative spelling of lower case.
• adj. in lower case.
• v. (transitive) To convert (text) to lower case.

lowly

• adj. Not high; not elevated in place; low.
• adj. Low in rank or social importance.
• adj. Not lofty or sublime; humble.
• adj. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
• adv. In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
• adv. In a low condition; meanly.

micro

• adj. Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
• n. (computing, dated) short form of microcomputer.
• n. (gaming slang) micromanagement.
• v. (gaming slang) to micromanage.

microscopic

• adj. Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal.
• adj. So small that it can only be seen using a microscope.
• adj. Very small; minute.
• adj. Carried out with great attention to detail.
• adj. Able to see extremely minute objects.

midget

• n. (originally) A little sandfly.
• n. (loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge.
• n. A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than…
• n. (sometimes derogatory) Any short person.
• n. (attributively) That is a small version of something; miniature.

miniature

• n. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
• n. A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
• n. A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
• n. The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
• n. An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
• n. A musical composition which is short in duration.
• n. (role-playing games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
• n. Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
• n. A particular feature or trait.
• adj. Smaller than normal.
• v. (transitive) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.

miniscule

• adj. Misspelling of minuscule.

minor

• adj. Of little significance or importance.
• adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the…
• adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities…
• n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who…
• n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
• n. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
• v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

minuscule

• n. A lower-case letter.
• n. Any of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
• n. A letter in these styles.
• adj. Written in minuscules, lower-case.
• adj. Written in minuscule handwriting style.
• adj. Very small, tiny.

minute

• n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
• n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
• n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
• n. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
• n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent…
• n. A point in time; a moment.
• n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
• n. An old coin, a half farthing.
• n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
• n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
• n. (slang, US, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
• v. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
• v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
• adj. Very small.
• adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

moderate

• adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
• adj. Mediocre.
• adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
• adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
• adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
• n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
• v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.

modest

• adj. Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.
• adj. Small, moderate in size.
• adj. (especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.

petite

• adj. Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
• adj. Of women's clothing: of small size.
• adj. Small, little; insignificant; petty.

pocket-size

• adj. Alternative spelling of pocket-sized.

pocket-sized

• adj. small enough to fit into a pocket.
• adj. (idiomatic) small-scale, downsized.

pocketable

• adj. Able to be put in one's pocket.

puny

• n. (obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
• n. (obsolete) A younger person.
• n. (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
• n. (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
• adj. Of inferior size, strength or significance.

reduced

• v. simple past tense and past participle of reduce.
• adj. Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
• adj. Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price.
• adj. In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.

runty

• adj. Having the characteristics of a runt; small and stunted.
• adj. diminutive.

shrimpy

• adj. Resembling shrimp; shrimplike.

size

• n. (obsolete outside dialects) An assize.
• n. (obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
• n. (obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
• n. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
• n. (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.
• n. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
• n. (graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.
• n. (figuratively, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
• n. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used…
• v. (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
• v. (transitive) To classify or arrange by size.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
• v. (intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.
• v. (Britain, Cambridge University slang, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
• n. A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
• n. Wallpaper paste.
• n. The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
• n. Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
• v. (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

slender

• adj. Thin; slim.
• adj. (figuratively) meagre; deficient.
• adj. (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

slim

• adj. Slender, thin.
• adj. (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
• adj. (rural, Northern England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
• adj. (South Africa) Sly, crafty.
• n. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
• n. (East Africa, uncountable) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
• v. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.

small-scale

• adj. Having a modest scope or extent.
• adj. Drawn or constructed at a small size, without much detail.

smaller

• adj. comparative form of small: more small.
• adv. comparative form of small: more small.

smallish

• adj. Somewhat small.

soft

• adj. Easily giving way under pressure.
• adj. (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
• adj. (of a sound) Quiet.
• adj. Gentle.
• adj. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
• adj. Gentle in action or motion; easy.
• adj. Weak in character; impressible.
• adj. Requiring little or no effort; easy.
• adj. Not bright or intense.
• adj. Having a slight angle from straight.
• adj. (linguistics) Voiced; sonant.
• adj. (linguistics, rare) voiceless.
• adj. (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized.
• adj. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
• adj. (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Foolish.
• adj. (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external…
• adj. (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
• adj. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
• adj. (Britain, of a man) Effeminate.
• adj. Agreeable to the senses.
• adj. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
• interj. (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
• adv. (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
• n. A soft or foolish person; an idiot.

teensy

• adj. (childish, informal) tiny.

teensy-weensy

• adj. (colloquial, often childish or humorous) Alternative form of teeny-weeny.

teentsy

• adj. Alternative form of teensy.

teeny

• adj. (informal) Very small; tiny.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) fretful; peevish; cross.

teeny-weeny

• adj. (colloquial, often childish or humorous) Very small; tiny; minuscule.

tiny

• adj. Very small.
• n. A small child; an infant.
• n. Anything very small.

undersize

• adj. Smaller than normal, undersized.
• adj. Smaller than appropriate, expected or sufficient.
• adj. Small enough to fit through a screen.

undersized

• adj. below the usual or expected size.

wee

• adj. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) urine.
• n. (colloquial) An act of urination.
• v. (colloquial) To urinate.
• pron. obsolete emphatic of we.

weensy

• adj. weeny or tiny; very small.

weeny

• adj. Minuscule.
• n. A wiener, a hot dog.
• n. (slang) A penis, from the resemblance to a wiener, sometimes thought of as small by influence from teeny…

young

• adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
• adj. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
• adj. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
• adj. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
• adj. (of a decade of life) Early.
• adj. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
• adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
• adj. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
• n. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
• n. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
• n. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
• v. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
• v. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
• v. (geology) To exhibit younging.