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smallish
adjective as in little
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
- shrimpy
- shriveled
- skimpy
- slight
- small
- snub
- sparse
- stubby
- stunted
- teeny
- tiny
- toy
- truncated
- undeveloped
- wee
- wizened
- young
Example Sentences
McCormick finds the smallish, hook-beaked birds by listening for their distinctive calls.
Ranchi, smallish by Indian standards, is full to the brim, and some journalists have been slung out of their hotels.
You may have heard during the last few days about the resignation by the president of a smallish university in New England.
The guy is shown with virtually no shoulders, his sloping, triangular black jacket transforming his body into a veritable mountain, with the Marqués’ wispy smallish head perched like a cherry atop a hot fudge sundae.
It’s a smallish space that can fit up to 45 people, but somehow it feels much bigger — maybe it’s the open roof or the focus-pulling wall mural that resembles Matisse cutouts.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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