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1. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
   "a small car"; "a small group"
   - little
    
2. Limited in size or scope
   "a small business"; "small-scale plans"
   - minor, modest, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized
    
3. (of children and animals) young, immature
   "small children"
   - little
    
4. Low or inferior in station or quality
   "small beginnings"
   - humble, low, lowly, modest
    
5. Lowercase
   "small a"
   - little, minuscule
    
6. (of a voice) faint
   "a still small voice"
   - little
    
7. Have fine or very small constituent particles
   "a small misty rain"
    
8. Not large but sufficient in size or amount
   "helped in my own small way"
   - modest
    
9. Made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
   "her comments made me feel small"
   - belittled, diminished
    
10. [archaic] Slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
    "a series of death struggles with small time in between"

1. The slender part of the back
    
2. A garment size for a small person

1. On a small scale
   "think small"

Derived forms: smalls, smaller, smallest

See also: atomic, bantam, bittie, bitty [N. Amer], decreased, diminutive, DINK, dinky [Brit], dwarfish, elfin, elflike, fine, flyspeck, gnomish, half-size, immature, inferior, infinitesimal, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, lesser, lilliputian, limited, little, littler, lowercase, micro, microscopic, microscopical, midget, miniature, miniscule, minuscule, minute, moderate, olive-sized, petite, pocketable, pocket-size, pocket-sized, puny, reduced, runty, shrimpy, size, slender, slight, slim, smaller, smallish, smallness, small-scale, soft, subatomic, teensy, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiddly [Brit], tiny, titchy [Brit], undersize, undersized, wee, weensy, weeny, young

Type of: body part, size

Antonym: big, large

Part of: back, dorsum

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