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smallish
adjective as in little
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Weak matches
- babyish
- bantam
- brief
- dinky
- elfin
- embryonic
- fleeting
- hardly any
- hasty
- immature
- imperceptible
- inappreciable
- inconsiderable
- infant
- infinitesimal
- insufficient
- junior
- light
- Lilliputian
- 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
- undeveloped
- wee
- wizened
- young
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Example Sentences
Top marathoners tend to be smallish because it improves their efficiency, may limit injuries, and enhances thermoregulation.
On a smallish stage, the equation of Springsteen plus a guitar and a piano equals a secret whisper, proof that rock’n’roll, proudly the noisiest of genres, is in reality a code that needs no overamplification.
They hadn’t secured the proper clearances and the publicist had overhyped the smallish to-do as way more than it was.
Their lives had crossed through their political work and, because Waterloo is still a smallish town, their relatives had shared a room in the same nursing home.
At that time, I was writing to a smallish community of about 3,000 readers.
He owns a smallish vaporizer that still looks like it came from the future, and buys wax instead of bud.
Step 11: Return to your living room, and fall asleep as a low-budget cop drama plays on a smallish computer monitor.
Some smallish number does that now, but I daresay there are more Bettes and Boonstras.
It is comparable, perhaps, to climbing a smallish mountain before and after your day's work.
The plan will include tax cuts, business tax benefits, and a smallish public-works component.
Originally it had been two smallish houses: the two front doors still remained side by side, but only one was used.
He was a smallish man, well rounded, pleasant-faced, and inordinately proud of his name.
He was a smallish, springy, firm-faced man, devotee of the lady bearing his name and wielding him.
He put his hand into another capacious pocket, and drew forth a smallish, glass box.
There was another bear in Labrador—a smallish, rusty-coated, broad-headed, crafty cousin of the ordinary American black bear.
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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to smallish, such as: cramped, diminutive, undersized, babyish, bantam, and brief.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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