🧩 small

Sizes & Amounts · chosen synonyms, sense by sense

adjectiveof little size or number

littletinycompactslightminormodestminiature

Little is the everyday twin; slight is about build and margin; minor is smallness of importance, not size.

adjectivenarrow-minded (small words)

pettynarrowmeanpaltrytrifling

Petty and mean accuse the motive; paltry dismisses the amount.

The other end: biglarge

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The rings above were chosen by hand for tukuk.org, sense by sense, and checked against usage rather than a synonym database dump. The dictionary tool can list WordNet’s full synonym sets for any of 200,000 words; this shelf keeps the forty words where choosing is genuinely hard and says how.