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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short in time |
| Synonyms: | concise, curtailed, ephemeral, fast, fleeting, hasty, instantaneous, little, meteoric, momentary, passing, quick, short-lived, short-term, swift, temporary, transient, transitory |
| Antonyms: | enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, long-lived |
| Main Entry: | diminutive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiny, petite |
| Synonyms: | Lilliputian, bantam, bitsy, bitty, button, little, midget, mini, miniature, minute, peewee, pint-sized, pocket, pocket-sized, small, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, undersize, wee, weeny |
| Notes: | Diminutive words can be literal or metaphorical, are often terms of endearment or affection, familiarity or intimacy, but sometimes also suggest condescension or dismissal. The contrasting word form is augmentative, whose general meaning is 'large,' often implying awkwardness or ugliness, as in eat up, hurry up. Augmentatives are common in Latinate languages. In English, augmentative words are generally formed by the addition of augmentative affixes. |
| Antonyms: | big, huge, large, tall |
| Main Entry: | easy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not difficult |
| Synonyms: | accessible, apparent, basic, child's play, cinch, clear, easily done, effortless, elementary, evident, facile, inconsiderable, light, little, manageable, manifest, mere, no bother, no problem, no sweat, no trouble, not burdensome, nothing to it, obvious, painless, paltry, picnic, piece of cake, plain, plain sailing, pushover, royal, simple, simple as ABC, slight, smooth, snap, straightforward, uncomplicated, undemanding, uninvolved, untroublesome, wieldy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complex, complicated, demanding, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, laborious, uneasy |
| Main Entry: | elfin |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | exiguous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scanty |
| Synonyms: | bare, confined, diminutive, inadequate, limited, little, meager, narrow, negligible, paltry, petty, poor, restricted, skimpy, slender, slight, small, spare, sparse, tenuous, thin, tiny |
| Antonyms: | plenty |
| Main Entry: | fine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dainty, delicate; sheer |
| Synonyms: | diaphanous, ethereal, exquisite, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spun, flimsy, fragile, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, granular, impalpable, light, lightweight, little, loose, minute, porous, powdered, powdery, pulverized, quality, slender, small, thin, threadlike, transparent |
| Antonyms: | coarse, rough, thick |
| Main Entry: | hardly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | scarcely; with difficulty |
| Synonyms: | almost inconceivably, almost not, barely, by a hair, by no means, comparatively, detectably, faintly, gradually, imperceptibly, infrequently, just, little, no more than, no way, not a bit, not at all, not by much, not likely, not markedly, not measurably, not much, not notably, not noticeably, not often, not quite, once in a blue moon, only, only just, perceptibly, practically, pretty near, rarely, scantly, seldom, simply, slightly, somewhat, sparsely, sporadically, with trouble |
| Antonyms: | very |
| Main Entry: | humble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, inferior |
| Synonyms: | base, beggarly, common, commonplace, contemptible, humdrum, ignoble, inglorious, insignificant, little, low, low-born, low-ranking, lowly, meager, mean, measly, menial, miserable, modest, obscure, ordinary, paltry, petty, pitiful, plebeian, proletarian, puny, rough, scrubby, seemly, servile, severe, shabby, simple, small, sordid, trivial, unassuming, uncouth, underprivileged, undistinguished, unfit, unimportant, unpretentious, unrefined, vulgar, wretched |
| Antonyms: | luxurious, rich, superior |
| Main Entry: | inconsequential/inconsiderable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of no significance |
| Synonyms: | casual, dinky, entry-level, exiguous, immaterial, inadequate, inappreciable, inconsequent, insignificant, insufficient, light, little, measly, minor, negligible, paltry, petty, picayune, puny, runt, scanty, shoestring, skimpy, small, small potatoes, small-time, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unconsidered, unimportant, wimpy, worthless |
| Antonyms: | consequential, considerable, important, significant |
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