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shrimpy
adjective as in little
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in smallish
Strongest matches
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
- shriveled
- skimpy
- slight
- small
- snub
- sparse
- stubby
- stunted
- teeny
- tiny
- toy
- truncated
- undeveloped
- wee
- wizened
- young
Example Sentences
Western whales may be following their favorite food, krill, as the waves wash the shrimpy crustaceans eastward, where they encounter a different population of whales.
You go, “This movie’s pretty shrimpy,” or like, “We deserve some shrimps for this.”
We both think I’m joking until I catch a whiff of my shrimpy catering pants on the hamper and I jog to the bathroom and puke.
Jupiter's moons range in size from shrimpy satellites to whopping space hulks.
That makes Chicago’s O’Hare look shrimpy at about 10 square miles, but neither of these places is a walk in the park.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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