N. smallness, littleness,
tenuity,
paucity, fewness, 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, drop in the ocean,
animalcule,
trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity
V. be small, lie in a nutshell, diminish, (contract) 195
Adj. small, little,
diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable,
paltry,
faint, slender, light, slight, scanty,
scant, limited,
meager,
sparing, few, 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
Adv. to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly,
imperceptibly,
miserably,
wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly,
faintly,
passably, pretty well, well enough, 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, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, 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, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about,
thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, 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
Phr. dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, "small sands the mountain, moments make the year", quantity by comparison with a similar object
N. fewness,
paucity, small number, small quantity,
rarity,
infrequency, handful,
maniple,
minority,
exiguity, reduction,
weeding,
elimination, sarculation|,
decimation,
eradication Adj. few,
scant, scanty, thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered,
spotty, few and far between,
exiguous, infrequent, rari nantes, hardly any, scarcely any, to be counted on one's fingers, reduced, unrepeated
Adv. rarely, here and there
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 N. narrowness, closeness,
exility, exiguity 7c, (little) 193, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip,
streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness,
tenuity,
emaciation,
macilency, marcor|,
shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy,
spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction,
stricture, neck,
waist,
isthmus,
wasp,
hourglass, ridge,
ghaut,
ghat, pass,
ravine, narrowing,
coarctation,
angustation,
tapering, contraction
V. be narrow, narrow,
taper, contract, render narrow, waste away
Adj. narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like,
finespun,
gossamer, paper-thin,
taper,
slim, slight-made,
scant, scanty,
spare, delicate,
incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c. (expand ), slender as a thread,
emaciated,
lean,
meager,
gaunt,
macilent,
lank,
lanky,
weedy,
skinny, scrawny slinky,
starved,
starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced,
lantern-jawed,
attenuated,
shriveled,
extenuated,
tabid, marcid|,
barebone,
rawboned, monomolecular
N. insufficiency,
inadequacy, inadequateness,
incompetence,
deficiency, imperfection,
shortcoming,
paucity,
stint,
scantiness, none to spare, bare subsistence,
scarcity,
dearth, want, need, lack, poverty,
exigency,
inanition,
starvation, famine,
drought,
dole,
mite,
pittance, short allowance, short commons, half rations, banyan day,
emptiness, poorness,
depletion,
vacancy,
flaccidity,
ebb tide, low water, "a beggarly account of empty boxes",
indigence,
insolvency V. be insufficient, not suffice, come short of run dry, want, lack, need, require,
caret, be in want, live from hand to mouth, render insufficient, drain of resources,
impoverish,
stint, put on short allowance, do insufficiently, scotch the snake
Adj. insufficient, inadequate, too little, not enough, unequal to, incompetent, "weighed in the balance and found wanting",
perfunctory, deficient, wanting,
&c. v, imperfect, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill- stored, ill-off,
slack, at a low ebb, empty,
vacant, bare, short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of, denuded of, dry, drained, unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished,
unreplenished, unfed, unstored,
untreasured, empty-handed,
meager, poor, thin,
scrimp,
sparing,
spare,
stinted,
starved,
starving, halfstarved, famine-stricken,
famished,
jejune,
scant,
scarce, not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price,
scurvy,
stingy, at the end of one's tether, without resources, in want, in debt
Adv. insufficiently, in default of, for want of, failing
Phr. semper avarus eget
