little
small
large
big
bare
scanty
spare
considerable
vicinity
finite
subextremal
high
lesser
modest
minimized
dimension
proportion
under
some
small indefinite quantity
in moderation
small indefinite amount
major
subohm
hefty
respectable
goodish
healthy
sizable
tidy
less
sizeable
goodly
micro
better
scant
quantitative
underproportioned
low
great
skimp
superextremal
indefinite quantity
more
marginal
deep
shade
tad
undersize
caliber
mesosome
scale value
pocket-size
minor
lightly
small-scale
commensurate
pocket-sized
thinly
slim
extensive
slender
quantum
dearth
decrease
lessen
extended
large-scale
paucity
off-the-charts
fall
averagely
diminish
short
or so
close to
around
just about
thereabout
approximately
insufficiency
appreciable
hypometric
inadequacy
large indefinite quantity
about
pitiful
large indefinite amount
more or less
thereabouts
deficiency
little
small
large
big
bare
scanty
spare
considerable
finite
subextremal
high
lesser
modest
minimized
major
subohm
hefty
respectable
goodish
healthy
sizable
tidy
sizeable
goodly
micro
better
quantitative
underproportioned
low
great
superextremal
marginal
deep
undersize
mesosome
pocket-size
minor
small-scale
commensurate
pocket-sized
slim
extensive
slender
extended
large-scale
off-the-charts
short
appreciable
hypometric
pitiful
under
lightly
thinly
some
averagely
or so
close to
around
just about
thereabout
approximately
about
more or less
thereabouts
vicinity
dimension
proportion
small indefinite quantity
small indefinite amount
less
little
indefinite quantity
shade
tad
caliber
scale value
quantum
dearth
paucity
insufficiency
inadequacy
large indefinite quantity
large indefinite amount
deficiency
scant
skimp
decrease
lessen
fall
diminish
adj
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
noun
adj
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- (informal) small and of little importance
- (of a voice) faint
- lowercase
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
adv
adj
adj
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- low or inferior in station or quality
- lowercase
- (of a voice) faint
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
adv
noun
adj
adj
- significant
- serious or severe
- loud and firm
- conspicuous in position or importance
- prodigious
- exhibiting self-importance
- feeling self-importance
- (of animals) fully developed
- marked by intense physical force
- generous and understanding and tolerant
- given or giving freely
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
adv
adj
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- having no clothes on the body
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- lacking a surface finish such as paint
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- having everything extraneous removed including contents
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
adj
verb
adj
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- thin and fit
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
verb
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- give up what is not strictly needed
- use frugally or carefully
noun
adj
- greater than normal in quantity or amount
- (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high')
- used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency
adj
- standing above others in quality or position
- happy and excited and energetic
- (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted
- slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
adv
- at a great altitude
- in or to a high position, amount, or degree
- in a rich manner
- far up toward the source
noun
- a lofty level or position or degree
- an air mass of higher than normal pressure
- a state of sustained elation
- a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics
- a high place
- a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
- a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed
noun
- magnitude or extent
- the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
- balance among the parts of something
- the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
verb
prep_phrase
adj
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
verb
noun
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- A touchdown, or major score.
- The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- A goal.
- A person of legal age.
- A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
adj
- less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
- being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
- used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
noun
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- a low level or position or degree
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
adv
adj
- very low in volume
- unrefined in character
- of the most contemptible kind
- low or inferior in station or quality
- no longer sufficient
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- filled with melancholy and despondency
verb
adj
- large in quantity or size
- marked by depth of thinking
- very distant in time or space
- intense or extreme
- having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
- strong; intense
- relatively thick from top to bottom
- extending relatively far inward
- (of darkness) densely dark
- with head or back bent low
- of an obscure nature
- difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
adj
- relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
- having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination
noun
- the central and most intense or profound part
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- literary term for an ocean
adv
noun
- a slight amount or degree of difference
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
- a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
- a position of relative inferiority
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
- a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view
verb
noun
- Relative size, importance, magnitude.
- A nominal name for a cartridge type, which may not exactly indicate its true size and may include other measurements such as cartridge length or black powder capacity. Eg 7.62×39 or 38.40.
- The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet, a projectile, or a column.
- Diameter of the bore of a firearm, typically measured between opposite lands.
- Capacity or compass of mind.
- Unit of measure used to express the length of the bore of a weapon. The number of calibres is determined by dividing the length of the bore of the weapon, from the breech face of the tube to the muzzle, by the diameter of its bore. A gun tube the bore of which is 40 feet (480 inches) long and 12 inches in diameter is said to be 40 calibers long.
- Movement of a timepiece.
adj
noun
adj
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
- warranting only temporal punishment
noun
adj
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- lesser in scope or effect
- inferior in number or size or amount
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
- not of legal age
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
verb
noun
- The amount or quantity observably present, or available.
- The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
- The total amount of something; quantity.
- The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
- The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.
- The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.
- The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.
- A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
adj
verb
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- come under, be classified or included
- fall from clouds
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- be captured
- occur at a specified time or place
- yield to temptation or sin
- lose office or power
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- move in a specified direction
- be due
- lose one's chastity
- to be given by right or inheritance
- come into the possession of
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be inherited by
- slope downward
- lose an upright position suddenly
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- fall or flow in a certain way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- be cast down
- come out; issue
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- begin vigorously
- go as if by falling
- come as if by falling
noun
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a downward slope or bend
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a movement downward
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
adj
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
adv
- Unawares.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- With a negative ownership position.
- Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
prep
adv
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- in the area or vicinity
- by a circular or circuitous route
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- in a circle or circular motion
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- to a particular destination either specified or understood
- all around or on all sides
- in circumference
- from beginning to end; throughout
adv
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- all around or on all sides
- in the area or vicinity
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- in rotation or succession
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
adj
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