1. An ultimate atom, or simple unextended point.
2. An indivisible thing.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
2. The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena.
3. One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.
4. A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.
In botany, a plant whose stamens are united in one body by the filaments.
Having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.
Alt. of Monadelphous
Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.
The doctrine or theory of monads.
Littleness Roget’s Thesaurus §193
N. littleness, smallness, exiguity, inextension, parvitude, parvity, duodecimo, elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm, rudiment, vanishing point, thinness, dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf, atomy, dandiprat, doll, puppet, tom thumb, hop-o'-my- thumb, manikin, mannikin, homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow, animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon, bacteria, infusoria, microzoa, phytozoaria, microbe, grub, tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry, millet seed, mustard seed, barleycorn, pebble, grain of sand, molehill, button, bubble, point, atom, fragment, powder, point of a pin, mathematical point, minutiae, micrometer, vernier, scale, microphotography, photomicrography, micrography, photomicrograph, microphotograph, microscopy, microscope (optical instruments) 445
V. be little, lie in a nutshell, become small, (contract) 195
Adj. little, small, minute, diminutive, microscopic, microzoal, inconsiderable, exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin, undersized, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, spare, stunted, limited, cramp, cramped, pollard, liliputian, dapper, pocket, portative, portable, duodecimo, dumpy, squat, short, impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial, infinitesimal, homoeopathic, atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular, rudimentary, rudimental, embryonic, vestigial, weazen|, scant, scraggy, scrubby, thin, granular, shrunk, brevipennate
Adv. in a small compass, in a nutshell, on a small scale, minutely, microscopically
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