smallness
Roget category 32
1. Words expressing abstract relations› 1.3. Quantity
›› 1.3.2. Comparative quantity
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Smallness
noun
smallness
etc.
adj. —
littleness
etc.
(small size)
193 —
tenuity —
paucity —
fewness
etc.
(small number)
103 —
meanness,
insignificance
(unimportance)
643 —
mediocrity,
moderation.
small quantity,
modicum,
trace,
hint,
minimum —
vanishing point —
material point,
atom,
particle,
molecule,
corpuscle,
point,
speck,
dot,
mote,
jot,
iota,
ace —
minutiae,
details —
look,
thought,
idea,
soupcon,
dab,
dight†,
whit,
tittle,
shade,
shadow —
spark,
scintilla,
gleam —
touch,
cast —
grain,
scruple,
granule,
globule,
minim,
sup,
sip,
sop,
spice,
drop,
droplet,
sprinkling,
dash,
morceau†,
screed,
smack,
tinge,
tincture —
inch,
patch,
scantling,
tatter,
cantlet†,
flitter,
gobbet†,
mite,
bit,
morsel,
crumb,
seed,
fritter,
shive† —
snip,
snippet —
snick†,
snack,
snatch,
slip,
scrag† —
chip,
chipping —
shiver,
sliver,
driblet,
clipping,
paring,
shaving,
hair.
nutshell —
thimbleful,
spoonful,
handful,
capful,
mouthful —
fragment —
fraction
etc.
(part)
51 —
drop in the ocean.
animalcule
etc.
193.
trifle
etc.
(unimportant thing)
643 —
mere nothing,
next to nothing —
hardly anything —
just enough to swear by —
the shadow of a shade.
finiteness,
finite quantity.
verb
be small
etc.
adj. —
lie in a nutshell.
diminish
etc.
(decrease)
36 —
(contract)
195.
adjective
small,
little —
diminutive
etc.
(small in size)
193 —
minute —
fine —
inconsiderable,
paltry
etc.
(unimportant)
643 —
faint
etc.
(weak)
160 —
slender,
light,
slight,
scanty,
scant,
limited —
meager
etc.
(insufficient)
640 —
sparing —
few
etc.
103 —
low,
so-so,
middling,
tolerable,
no great shakes —
below par,
under par,
below the mark —
at a low ebb —
halfway —
moderate,
modest —
tender,
subtle.
inappreciable,
evanescent,
infinitesimal,
homeopathic,
very small —
atomic,
corpuscular,
microscopic,
molecular,
subatomic.
mere,
simple,
sheer,
stark,
bare —
near run.
dull,
petty,
shallow,
stolid,
ungifted,
unintelligent.
adverb
to a small extent
[in a small degree],
on a small scale —
a little bit,
a wee bit —
slightly
etc.
adj. —
imperceptibly —
miserably,
wretchedly —
insufficiently
etc.
640 —
imperfectly —
faintly
etc.
160 —
passably,
pretty well,
well enough.
[in a certain or limited degree]
partially,
in part —
in a certain degree,
to a certain degree —
to a certain extent —
comparatively —
some,
rather in some degree,
in some measure —
something,
somewhat —
simply,
only,
purely,
merely —
at least,
at the least,
at most,
at the most —
ever so little,
as little as may be,
tant soit peu [Fr.],
in ever so small a degree —
thus far,
pro tanto [It],
within bounds,
in a manner,
after a fashion,
so to speak.
almost,
nearly,
well-nigh,
short of,
not quite,
all but —
near upon,
close upon —
peu s'en faut [Fr.],
near the mark —
within an ace of,
within an inch of —
on the brink of —
scarcely,
hardly,
barely,
only just,
no more than.
about
[in an uncertain degree],
thereabouts,
somewhere about,
nearly,
say —
be the same,
be little more or less.
no ways
[in no degree],
no way,
no wise —
not at all,
not in the least,
not a bit,
not a bit of it,
not a whit,
not a jot,
not a shadow —
in no wise,
in no respect —
by no means,
by no manner of means —
on no account,
at no hand.
phrase
dare pondus idonea fumo [Lat.]
[Persius];
magno conatu magnas nugas [Lat.]
[Terence];
small sands the mountain, moments make the small sands the mountain, moments make the year"
[Young].
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QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A SIMILAR OBJECT
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