[
UK
/smˈɔːl/
]
[ US /ˈsmɔɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsmɔɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
relatively moderate, limited, or small
a small business
a pocket-size country
small-scale plans
a newspaper with a modest circulation -
(of children and animals) young, immature
what a big little boy you are
small children -
have fine or very small constituent particles
a small misty rain -
not large but sufficient in size or amount
modest inflation
helped in my own small way
a modest salary -
low or inferior in station or quality
a humble cottage
a modest man of the people
a lowly parish priest
small beginnings -
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
a little dining room
a small car
a little house
a little (or small) group -
made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
her comments made me feel small -
(of a voice) faint
a still small voice
a little voice -
slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
a series of death struggles with small time in between -
lowercase
little a
e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
small a
NOUN
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
ADVERB
-
on a small scale
think small
How To Use small In A Sentence
- Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
- Just before serving, prepare a few small cheese ravioli and place them in each bowl before you add the soup.
- A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
- Some lucky local with an open fire had determined the evening warranted a little extra cheer, more than the central heating could provide, and had lit a small blaze on his hearth.
- I think a lot of players from bigger clubs have spent time on loan at smaller clubs and it has really helped.
- I usually sqirt a drop or two on the front and back of my boots, and a few drops on a wick around the stand. i never used the buck pee though. i have used a couple of tarsal glands from a buck that my friend killed. had small buck circle the tree i hung it from a couple times. When to use What deer pee?
- His season may have turned on a couple of bits of skill and a small dash of luck. Times, Sunday Times
- Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
- For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
- And those involved are pretty small: a few degrees between cooler land and warmer ocean at night, a few tens of degrees between tropics and poles. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
