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. impotence, inability, disability, disablement,
impuissance,
imbecility, incapacity,
incapability,
inaptitude,
ineptitude,
incompetence, unproductivity,
indocility,
invalidity,
disqualification, inefficiency,
wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen,
blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper,
dummy, paper tiger, quaker gun,
inefficacy, failure,
helplessness,
prostration,
paralysis,
palsy,
apoplexy,
syncope, sideration|, deliquium|,
collapse,
exhaustion, softening of the brain,
inanition,
emasculation, orchiotomy,
orchotomy,
cripple, old woman,
muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle,
eunuch V. be impotent, not have a leg to stand on, vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou, vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents,
collapse,
faint,
swoon, fall into a swoon, drop, go by the board, go by the wayside, go up in smoke, end in smoke, render powerless, deprive of power, disable, disenable, disarm,
incapacitate,
disqualify, unfit,
invalidate,
deaden,
cramp, tie the hands, double up,
prostrate,
paralyze,
muzzle,
cripple,
becripple,
maim,
lame,
hamstring, draw the teeth of,
throttle,
strangle, garrotte,
garrote,
ratten, silence,
sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns, take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel, break the neck, break the back,
unhinge, unfit, put out of gear, unman, unnerve,
enervate,
emasculate,
castrate,
geld, alter,
neuter,
sterilize, fix,
shatter,
exhaust,
weaken Adj. powerless,
impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective,
inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt,
crippled, disabled, armless,
harmless, unarmed, weaponless,
defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified,
indefensible,
vincible,
pregnable, untenable,
paralytic,
paralyzed,
palsied,
imbecile, nerveless,
sinewless,
marrowless,
pithless,
lustless,
emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged,
water-logged, on one's beam ends,
rudderless, laid on one's back, done up,
dead beat, exhausted,
shattered,
demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on,
hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void,
nugatory,
inoperative, good for nothing,
ineffectual, inadequate,
inefficacious Phr. der kranke mann, "desirous still but impotent to rise", the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
N. weakness,
debility,
atony,
relaxation,
languor,
enervation,
impotence,
infirmity,
effeminacy,
feminality,
fragility,
flaccidity, inactivity,
anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy,
invalidation,
decrepitude,
asthenia,
adynamy,
cachexy,
cachexia,
sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards,
softling,
weakling, infant, youth
V. be weak, drop,
crumble, give way,
totter,
tremble,
shake,
halt,
limp,
fade,
languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave, render weak,
weaken,
enfeeble,
debilitate,
shake, deprive of strength,
relax,
enervate,
eviscerate,
unbrace, unnerve,
cripple, unman,
cramp, reduce,
sprain, strain, blunt the edge of,
dilute,
impoverish,
decimate,
extenuate, reduce in strength, reduce the strength of, mettre de l'eau dans son vin
Adj. weak, feeble, debile|,
impotent,
relaxed, unnerved,
&c. v,
sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung,
flaccid,
adynamic,
asthenic, nervous, soft,
effeminate,
feminate, womanly,
frail,
fragile,
shattery,
flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial,
gimcrack,
gingerbread,
rickety, creaky,
creaking,
cranky, craichy,
drooping,
tottering, broken,
lame,
withered,
shattered,
shaken,
crazy,
shaky,
palsied,
decrepit,
languid, poor, infirm,
faint,
faintish, sickly, dull,
slack, evanid|, spent,
short-winded,
effete,
weather-beaten, decayed,
rotten, worn,
seedy,
languishing, wasted,
washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless,
defenseless, cantilevered (support) 215, on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless
Phr. non sum qualis eram, 3, power in operation
N. faintness, faint sound,
whisper, breath, undertone, underbreath,
murmur,
hum,
susurration,
tinkle, "still small voice." hoarseness,
raucity V. whisper,
breathe,
murmur,
purl,
hum,
gurgle,
ripple,
babble, flow,
tinkle,
mutter, susurrate, steal on the ear, melt in the air, float on the air
Adj. inaudible, scarcely audible, just audible, low, dull,
stifled,
muffled,
hoarse,
husky, gentle, soft,
faint, floating,
purling, flowing,
whispered, liquid,
soothing,
dulcet,
susurrant,
susurrous Adv. in a whisper, with bated breath,
sotto voce, between the teeth, aside,
piano,
pianissimo, d la sourdine, out of earshot inaudibly, (ii) specific sounds
N. dimness, darkness, paleness &c. # (light color) 429, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade,
glimmer, gliming,
nebulosity, cloud,
eclipse,
aurora,
dusk,
twilight, shades of evening,
crepuscule, cockshut time|, break of day,
daybreak,
dawn,
moonlight,
moonbeam,
moonglade,
moonshine,
starlight, owl's light,
candlelight,
rushlight, firelight, farthing candle
V. be dim, grow dim,
flicker,
twinkle,
glimmer,
loom, lower,
fade, pale, pale its ineffectual fire, render dim,
dim,
bedim, obscure,
darken, tone down
Adj. dim, dull,
lackluster,
dingy,
darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421,
faint, shadowed forth,
glassy,
cloudy,
misty,
blear, muggy|,
fuliginous,
nebulous,
nebular, obnubilated, overcast,
crepuscular,
muddy,
lurid,
leaden,
dun,
dirty,
looming, pale, confused
N. achromatism,
decoloration,
discoloration,
pallor,
pallidness,
pallidity, paleness,
etiolation, neutral tint,
monochrome, black and white
V. lose color,
fade, fly, go, become colorless, turn pale, pale, deprive of color,
decolorize,
bleach,
tarnish,
achromatize,
blanch,
etiolate, wash out, tone down
Adj. uncolored &c. (see color ), colorless,
achromatic,
aplanatic,
etiolate,
etiolated,
hueless, pale,
pallid, palefaced,
tallow-faced,
faint, dull, cold,
muddy,
leaden,
dun,
wan,
sallow, dead,
dingy,
ashy,
ashen,
ghastly,
cadaverous,
glassy,
lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair,
blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse
N. fatigue,
weariness,
yawning,
drowsiness,
lassitude,
tiredness, fatigation|,
exhaustion,
sweat,
dyspnoea,
anhelation, shortness of breath,
faintness,
collapse,
prostration,
swoon,
fainting,
deliquium,
syncope,
lipothymy, goneness
V. be fatigued,
yawn,
droop, sink, flag, lose breath, lose wind,
gasp,
pant,
puff, blow, drop,
swoon,
faint,
succumb,
fatigue,
tire,
weary,
irk, flag,
jade,
harass,
exhaust, knock up, wear out,
prostrate, tax, task, strain, overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax, overstrain
Adj. fatigued,
tired,
weary,
drowsy,
drooping,
haggard, toilworn,
wayworn, footsore, surbated|, weather- beaten,
faint, done up, used up, knocked up, bushed *, exhausted,
prostrate, spent, overtired, overspent, overfatigued,
unrefreshed, unrestored, worn, worn out,
battered,
shattered, pulled down,
seedy, altered, breathless, windless, short of breath, out of breath, short of wind,
blown, puffing and blowing,
short-breathed,
anhelose, broken winded,
short-winded, dyspnaeal, dyspnaeic, ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive,
dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out,
hors de combat,
fatiguing,
tiresome,
irksome,
wearisome,
weary, trying
