Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous; small |
| Synonyms: | delicate, devilish, disobedient, elfish, frolicsome, impish, little, minute, misbehaving, naughty, petite, playful, prankish, puckish, puny, rascally, slight, sprightly, tiny |
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| Main Entry: | impish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous |
| Synonyms: | casual, devil-may-care, devilish, elfin, elvish, fiendish, flippant, free and easy, fresh, frolicsome, giddy, jaunty, naughty, offhand, pert, pixieish, playful, prankish, puckish, rascally, saucy*, sportive, waggish |
| Antonyms: | behaved, subdued, unmischievous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | leprechaun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elf |
| Synonyms: | brownie, elfin, fairy, fay, gnome, nisse, pixie, sprite |
| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small in size, amount |
| Synonyms: | Lilliputian, babyish, bantam, brief, cramped, diminutive, dinky, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hardly any, hasty, immature, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infant, infinitesimal, insufficient, junior, light, limited, meager, microscopic, mini, miniature, minute, not big, not large, peanut, petite, scant, short, short-lived, shrimpy, shriveled, skimpy, slight, snub, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, toy, truncated, undersized, undeveloped, wee, wizened, young |
| Antonyms: | big, enormous, giant, great, huge, immense, large, massive |
| Main Entry: | petite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small |
| Synonyms: | baby, bantam, dainty, delicate, diminutive, elfin, little, miniature, minikin, slight, smallish, tiny, wee |
| Antonyms: | extra-large, huge, tall |
| Main Entry: | elfish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous |
| Synonyms: | elfin, impish, naughty, prankish |
| Main Entry: | fey |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elflike |
| Synonyms: | clairvoyant, dead, elfin, fairylike, otherworldly, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | smallish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | little |
| Synonyms: | Lilliputian, babyish, bantam, brief, cramped, diminutive, dinky, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hardly any, hasty, immature, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infant, infinitesimal, insufficient, junior, light, limited, meager, microscopic, mini, miniature, minute, not big, not large, peanut, petite, scant, short, short-lived, shrimpy, shriveled, skimpy, slight, small, snub, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, toy, truncated, undersized, undeveloped, wee, wizened, young |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb, noun |
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Adjectives: |
atomic, corpuscular, cramp, cramped, dapper, diminutive, dumpy, duodecimo, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, embryonic, evanescent, exiguous, granular, homeopathic, impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, liliputian, limited, little, microscopic, miniature, minikin, minute, molecular, petty, pigmy, pocket, pollard, portable, portative, puny, rudimental, rudimentary, scant, scraggy, scrubby, short, shrunk, small, squat, stunted, thin, tiny, undersized, weazened, wee
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