small(LITTLE)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not great in size, amount, etc.
smallI live in a small town.
littleShe's a good little girl.
a littleI just want a little ice cream.
a little (bit)I was a little bit upset that she ate the last piece of cake.
tinyHis body was covered in tiny red spots.
Her tiny attic room had poor ventilation and in summer it became unbearably stuffy.
During surgery, doctors sometimes use a laser beam to vaporize tiny blood vessels.手术过程中，医生有时会使用激光束来汽化毛细血管。
Elaine looked up at the black, velvety sky studded with tiny, twinkling stars.伊莱恩抬头看着漆黑的、丝绒般的天空，闪闪繁星点缀其中。
The glass shattered into a thousand tiny pieces.玻璃碎成无数块细小的碎片。
The print is so tiny, you need a magnifying glass to read it.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Extremely small
atomized
be knee-high to a grasshopperidiom
bitsy
exiguity
exiguous
imperceptible
indiscernibly
infinitesimal
infinitesimally
irreducible
irreducibly
miniature
minuscule
slimly
slimness
subatomic
ultra-tiny
vanishingly
weeny
XS

tiny | American Dictionary

tiny
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/ˈtɑɪ·ni/
extremely small:
Just trim a tiny bit off my hair, please.

Examples of tiny

tiny
The canals were cemented over, the fields disappeared and only some tiny rural features remained.
The malaligned atrial septum was widely excised to reveal a small left atrium receiving the pulmonary venous orifices and a tiny atrial appendage.
It is probable that the vegetation itself dislodged into the peripheral pulmonary arteries following its breakdown to tiny pieces.
The tiny number of titles, just a few hundred in a nation of millions, kept the order exclusive.
When observations were made at the surface of activated oocytes, numerous tiny spots were seen to be evenly distributed over most of surface area.
Perhaps the access which even tiny regions receive due to their administrative status enables them to extract benefits disproportionate to their populations.
Tiny adjustments of hand position on a string instrument and of embouchure on a wind instrument can cause large changes in pitch.
Actually, to get high energy per nucleon, the target to be irradiated can be quite tiny, depending on the laser energy available.
Lastly, in every segment of the population, only a tiny minority displayed some degree of trust in the political branches of government.
Only a tiny minority (5 per cent) displayed some degree of trust in the popularly elected branches of government.
Only a tiny fraction of the mass of a planet can be useful to its inhabitants.
Nor was the other merely a tiny and unreconstructed minority unwilling to learn from its mistakes.
This tiny leather-bound volume contained a set of maps, carefully copied from originals dating from 1857 up to 1872.
Since 1953, he had been retired, eking out a tiny pension with language lessons.
Tiny grains of zircon are found as an accessory mineral within plagioclase crystals in most zones of both layers.
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