littleness; smallness (of quantity); exiguity, inextension; parvitude, parvity; duodecimo; Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness., dwarf, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow., animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; protozoa; microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble., point; atom (small quantity); fragment (small part); powder; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae (unimportance)., micrography, micrometer, microscope; vernier; scale.

be little; lie in a nutshell; become small (decrease), (contract) [more].

little; small (in quantity); minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzeal; inconsiderable (unimportant); exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, minature, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short., impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable; infinitesimal, homoeopathic; atomic, corpuscular, molecular; rudimentary, rudimental; embryonic, vestigial., weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin (narrow); granular (powdery); shrunk; brevipennate.

in a small compass, in a nutshell; on a small scale.