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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nut |
| Synonyms: | earth, goober, groundnut, mani, seed |
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| Main Entry: | petty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trivial, insignificant |
| Synonyms: | base, casual, cheap, contemptible, frivolous, inconsequent, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, irrelevant, junior, lesser, light, little, lower, measly, minor, narrow-minded, negligible, nickel-and-dime, niggling, paltry, peanut, penny-ante, pettifogging, picayune, piddling, scratch, secondary, shabby, shallow, shoestring, slight, small, small-minded, subordinate, trifling, two-bit, unimportant |
| Notes: | paltry means not worth considering or contemptibly small in amount; petty means inferior in rank or status or contemptibly narrow in outlook |
| Antonyms: | consequential, important, major, necessary, prominent, significant, useful |
| Main Entry: | piddling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant |
| Synonyms: | derisory, little, measly, niggling, paltry, peanut, pettifogging, petty, picayune, puny, trifling, trivial, unimportant, useless, worthless |
| Notes: | pindling means frail or puny; piddling means trivial or trifling |
| Antonyms: | important, major, significant |
| Main Entry: | puny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small, insignificant |
| Synonyms: | diminutive, feeble, fragile, frail, half-pint, inconsequential, inferior, infirm, little, measly, minor, niggling, nothing, paltry, peanut, peewee, petty, picayune, piddling, pint-sized, runt, shrimp, small time, small-fry, stunted, tiny, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unconsequential, underfed, undersized, undeveloped, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, weakly, wee, worthless, zero*, zilch |
| Antonyms: | big, giant, huge, large |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stunted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kept from growing |
| Synonyms: | bantam, diminutive, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, half-pint, little, measly, mite, peanut, peewee, pint-sized, runted, runtish, runty, scrub, short, shot, shrimp, small, small fry, tiny, undergrown, undersized, wee, yea big, yea high |
| Antonyms: | developing, growing |
| Main Entry: | football |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the ball used in football |
| Synonyms: | inflated oval, moleskin, oval, peanut, pigskin, pineapple, porker, regulation football, sphere*, watermelon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inconsiderable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | petty |
| Synonyms: | base, casual, cheap, contemptible, frivolous, inconsequent, inessential, inferior, irrelevant, junior, lesser, light, little, lower, measly, minor, narrow-minded, negligible, nickel-and-dime, niggling, nugatory, of no account, paltry, peanut, penny-ante, pettifogging, picayune, piddling, scratch, secondary, shabby, shallow, shoestring, slight, small, small-minded, subordinate, trifling, two-bit, unimportant |
| 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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| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb, noun |
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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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