Smallness

Synonyms for smallness
noun littleness

narrowness
scantiness
brevity
slightness

petiteness
diminutiveness
tininess
shortness

minuteness
atomity
dinkiness
infinitesimalness

small size
smallishness

Concept Thesaurus for word smallness
2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A STANDARD
Synonyms – noun

smallness
fewness (small number)
small quantity
minimum
particle
speck
iota
look
dab
shade
gleam
scruple
sup
drop
morceau
tincture
tatter
mite
seed
snippet
slip
shiver
paring
thimbleful
mouthful
animalcule
hardly anything
finite quantity.

littleness (small size)
meanness, insignificance (unimportance)
modicum
vanishing point
molecule
dot
ace
thought
dight
shadow
touch
granule
sip
droplet
screed
inch
cantlet
bit
fritter
snick
scrag
sliver
shaving
spoonful
fragment
trifle (unimportant thing)
just enough to swear by

tenuity
mediocrity
trace
material point
corpuscle
mote
minutiae
idea
whit
spark
cast
globule
sop
sprinkling
smack
patch
flitter
morsel
shive
snack
chip
driblet
hair.
handful
fraction (part)
mere nothing
the shadow of a shade.

paucity
moderation.
hint
atom
point
jot
details
soupcon
tittle
scintilla
grain
minim
spice
dash
tinge
scantling
gobbet
crumb
snip
snatch
chipping
clipping
nutshell
capful
drop in the ocean.
next to nothing
finiteness

Synonyms – verbs

be small

lie in a nutshell.

diminish (decrease)

(contract)

Synonyms – adjectives

small
fine
light
limited
low
no great shakes
at a low ebb
tender
infinitesimal
corpuscular
mere
bare
shallow

little
inconsiderable, paltry (unimportant)
slight
meager (insufficient)
so-so
below par
halfway
subtle.
homeopathic
microscopic
simple
near run.
stolid

diminutive (small in size)
faint (weak)
scanty
sparing
middling
under par
moderate
inappreciable
very small
molecular
sheer
dull
ungifted

minute
slender
scant
few
tolerable
below the mark
modest
evanescent
atomic
subatomic.
stark
petty
unintelligent.

Synonyms – phrases
dare pondus idonea fumo [Persius]; magno conatu magnas nugas [Terence]; “small sands the mountain, moments make the year” [Young].
Antonyms

greatness

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Other adjectives related to smallness

acervuline
below the mark
evanescent
few and far between
inappreciable
lapilliform
meager
middling
modest
paltry
puisne
scanty
slender
so
thin
two
wiry

at a low ebb
blebby
exiguous
halfway
inconsiderable
light
mere
minute
nanoid
parvis
rare
scarcely any
slight
stark
thinly scattered
under the mark

bare
boxy
faint
hardly any
infinitesimal
littlemeal
micro
minutissimic
near ruin
petite
reduced
sheer
small
subtle
to be counted on one’s fingers
unrepeated

beady
diminutive
few
homeopathic
infrequent
low
microcephalous
moderate
no great shakes
pindling
scant
simple
smilet
tender
tolerable
very small

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