made to seem smaller or less ( especially in worth); " her comments made me feel small"

not fully grown; " what a big little boy you are"; " small children"

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; " a little dining room"; " a little house"; " a small car"; " a little ( or small) group"; " a small voice"

lowercase; " little a"; " small a"; " e. e. cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

limited in size or scope; " a small business"; " a newspaper with a modest circulation"; " small- scale plans"; " a pocket- size country"

not large but sufficient in size or amount; " a modest salary"; " modest inflation"; " helped in my own small way"

a garment size for a small person

the slender part of the back

on a small scale; " think small"

( archaic) slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; " a series of death struggles with small time in between"

slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; " a series of death struggles with small time in between"

have fine or very small constituent particles; " a small misty rain"

Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.

Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.

In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.

Not loudly; faintly; timidly.

The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.

Smallclothes.

Same as Little go. See under Little, a.

To make little or less.

Envincing little worth or ability; not large- minded; - sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.

Comparatively little in size, quantity, or degree: opposite to large; unimportant or insignificant; as, his opinion is of small value; not powerful; not long in duration; as, a small period of time; petty; not large- minded; narrow.

Smallness.

Smaller.

Smallest.

Little in quantity or degree: minute: not great: unimportant: of little worth or ability: short: having little strength: gentle.

Little; slender; unimportant.

Diminutive; little; unimportant; mean.

Little in size, quantity, amount, degree, quality, & c.; minute; slender; of little moment; of little genius; weak; gentle; mean.

The slender part of a thing.

Not great; slender; of little moment, weight, or importance; little; soft; not loud; trifling.

The small or narrow part of anything.

I did not look at him, but knew that he was a small man. – Who Goes There? by Blackwood Ketcham Benson

The old captain looked hurriedly toward his small house. – Madge Morton's Victory by Amy D.V. Chalmers

But Major White was in the train, being a man of his word in small things as well as in great. – Roden's Corner by Henry Seton Merriman

I do not think that is such a small thing, after all. – Rosmerholm by Henrik Ibsen

She hardly knew, for she had seen so little of John since she was a small child. – Mr. Isaacs by F. Marion Crawford

Certainly it is, small lady. – Eastern Shame Girl The Wedding of Ya-Nei; A Strange Destiny; The Error of the Embroidered Slipper; The Counterfeit Old Woman; The Monastery of the Esteemed-Lotus; A Complicated Marriage by Charles Georges Souli

Small family in country. – Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories by Kathleen Norris

I was thinking just now, not only that work looks easy, but that it looks small. – The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

They're small, but they're very good. – The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

" We are very small," she said. – Seraphita by Honore de Balzac

The other will be a small bed- room. – Real Ghost Stories by William T. Stead

George had met her once in the way of small- talk at her father's house. – The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett

No, it is too small for you to see; you must take it on my word, who have seen it. – Melbourne House by Elizabeth Wetherell

We're too small and too close in for gun fire. – On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles by Thomas Charles Bridges

Your opinion of woman, said Minora in a very small voice, is not a high one. – Elizabeth and her German Garden by "Elizabeth", AKA Marie Annette Beauchamp

I am the son of a widow with very small means. – The Time of Roses by L. T. Meade

Her own place is far too small. – Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

A small field lay between that and the house. – Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner