small
/smɔl/ adjective A1- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. · A small serving of ice cream.· A small group.
- Humiliated or insignificant. · The bullies had succeeded in making him feel small.
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size. · (of genitals)· Though over six feet tall, the man was very small and ashamed to undress.
- Young, as a child. · Remember when the children were small?
- Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short. · a small space of time
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”). · small science
Comparative smaller · Superlative smallest
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But I excuse it, it is impossible to expect the son of a Girondin to be free from a small spice of the old leaven.” A deep crimson suffused the countenance of Villefort.
There are times when the small and lowly are the strongest to do mischief.”
The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the “Vive Napoléons” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.
“Now I recollect,” said the afflicted old father; “my poor boy told me yesterday he had got a small case of coffee, and another of tobacco for me!”
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