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small 音標拼音: [sm'ɔl] a. 小的,少的,小型的,瑣碎的,低微的,小氣的,細微的
ad. 些微地
n. 狹小部分 小的,少的,小型的,瑣碎的,低微的,小氣的,細微的些微地狹小部分 small小 小型 small adv 1: on a small scale; " think small" [ ant: { big}] adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; " a little dining room"; " a little house"; " a small car"; " a little ( or small) group" [ synonym: { small}, { little}] [ ant: { big}, { large}] 2: limited in size or scope; " a small business"; " a newspaper with a modest circulation"; " small- scale plans"; " a pocket- size country" [ synonym: { minor}, { modest}, { small}, { small- scale}, { pocket- size}, { pocket- sized}] 3: ( of children and animals) young, immature; " what a big little boy you are"; " small children" [ synonym: { little}, { small}] 4: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; " a series of death struggles with small time in between" 5: low or inferior in station or quality; " a humble cottage"; " a lowly parish priest"; " a modest man of the people"; " small beginnings" [ synonym: { humble}, { low}, { lowly}, { modest}, { small}] 6: lowercase; " little a"; " small a"; " e. e. cummings' s poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [ synonym: { little}, { minuscule}, { small}] 7: ( of a voice) faint; " a little voice"; " a still small voice" [ synonym: { little}, { small}] 8: have fine or very small constituent particles; " a small misty rain" 9: not large but sufficient in size or amount; " a modest salary"; " modest inflation"; " helped in my own small way" [ synonym: { modest}, { small}] 10: made to seem smaller or less ( especially in worth); " her comments made me feel small" [ synonym: { belittled}, { diminished}, { small}] n 1: the slender part of the back 2: a garment size for a small personSmall \ Small\, v. t. To make little or less. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster]
Small \ Small\ ( sm[ add] l), a. [ Compar. { Smaller} ( sm[ add] l"[~ e] r); superl. { Smallest}.] [ OE. small, AS. smael; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali small cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. mh^ lon a sheep or goat.] 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river. [ 1913 Webster] To compare Great things with small. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Envincing little worth or ability; not large- minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean. [ 1913 Webster] A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. -- Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. " A still, small voice." -- 1 Kings xix. 12. [ 1913 Webster] { Great and small}, of all ranks or degrees; -- used especially of persons. " His quests, great and small." -- Chaucer. { Small arms}, muskets, rifles, pistols, etc., in distinction from cannon. { Small beer}. See under { Beer}. { Small coal}. ( a) Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires. -- Gay. ( b) Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the coarser parts by screening. { Small craft} ( Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a small size. { Small fruits}. See under { Fruit}. { Small hand}, a certain size of paper. See under { Paper}. { Small hours}. See under { Hour}. { Small letter}. ( Print.), a lower- case letter. See { Lower- case}, and { Capital letter}, under { Capital}, a. { Small piece}, a Scotch coin worth about 21/ 4d. sterling, or about 41/ 2cents. { Small register}. See the Note under 1st { Register}, 7. { Small stuff} ( Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope. -- R. H. Dana, Jr. { Small talk}, light or trifling conversation; chitchat. { Small wares} ( Com.), various small textile articles, as tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. -- M` Culloch. [ 1913 Webster]
Small \ Small\, adv. 1. In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly. [ Obs.] " I wept but small." -- Chaucer. " It small avails my mood." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Not loudly; faintly; timidly. [ Obs. or Humorous] [ 1913 Webster] You may speak as small as you will. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Small \ Small\, n. 1. The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back. [ 1913 Webster] 2. pl. Smallclothes. [ Colloq.] -- Hood. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster] 3. pl. Same as { Little go}. See under { Little}, a. [ 1913 Webster] 291 Moby Thesaurus words for " small": Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, airy, arrant, ascetic, atrocious, attenuate, attenuated, austere, authoritarian, baby, back- burner, bantam, base, beggarly, bigot, bigoted, borne, boyish, cheap, cheesy, close, closed, commonplace, constricted, contemptible, cramped, creedbound, crummy, cursory, deaf, deaf to reason, debased, deficient, degraded, delicate, depraved, depthless, despicable, diaphanous, diluted, diminished, diminutive, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dispensable, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, ethereal, everyday, execrable, exiguous, fanatical, few, fine, fine- drawn, finespun, flagrant, flat, flimsy, footling, foul, frail, frugal, fulsome, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, grave, gross, grudging, half- pint, heinous, hidebound, homely, humble, humble- looking, humble- visaged, humblest, illiberal, immaterial, immature, imperfect, impoverished, in a nutshell, in miniature, in the small, inadequate, inappreciable, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant, insubstantial, insufficient, insular, irrelevant, jejune, knee- high, lacy, lean, least, lesser, light, limited, little, little- minded, low, low- down, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen, maladroit, mangy, matter- of- fact, meager, mean, mean- minded, mean- spirited, measly, mediocre, midget, mingy, mini, miniature, minor, minuscule, minute, miserable, miserly, misty, modest, monkey, monstrous, mundane, narrow, narrow- hearted, narrow- minded, narrow- souled, narrow- spirited, nearsighted, nefarious, negligible, niggardly, no great shakes, nonessential, not comparable, not in it, not vital, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, one- horse, out of it, paltry, papery, parochial, parsimonious, peewee, petit, petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pindling, pint- sized, plain, pocket- sized, poky, poor, provincial, puny, purblind, rank, rare, rarefied, reduced, reptilian, scabby, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, secondary, selfish, shabby, shallow, shoddy, short, shortsighted, simple, skimp, skimpy, skin- deep, slender, slenderish, slight, slight- made, slightly, slim, slimmish, slinky, small- minded, small- scale, smallish, smally, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation, stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, straitlaced, stuffy, stunted, subsistence, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike, teachable, technical, teeny, tenuous, thin, thin- bodied, thin- set, thin- spun, thinnish, threadlike, tight, tight- fisted, tiny, trifling, trivial, two- by- four, two- dimensional, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized, undistinguished, unessential, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant, unimpressive, uninspired, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unnourishing, unnutritious, unoriginal, unpretentious, unprofound, unsatisfactory, unskillful, vague, vile, wasp- waisted, watered, watered- down, watery, weak, wee, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy, wretched, young |
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