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Adjective small has 11 senses
- small, little - 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"; "a small voice"
Antonyms: large, big, ample, sizable, sizeable, astronomic, astronomical, galactic, bigger, larger, biggest, greatest, largest, biggish, largish, blown-up, enlarged, bouffant, puffy, bulky, capacious, colossal, prodigious, stupendous, cosmic, deep, double, elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo, enormous, tremendous, epic, heroic, larger-than-life, extensive, extended, gigantic, mammoth, great, hulking, hulky, huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian, humongous, banging, thumping, whopping, walloping, king-size, king-sized, large-scale, life-size, lifesize, life-sized, full-size, macro, man-sized, monolithic, monumental, massive, monstrous, mountainous, outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized, overlarge, too large, plumping, queen-size, queen-sized, rangy, super, titanic, volumed, voluminous, whacking, wide-ranging, broad, spacious, wide
- minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized - limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
Antonyms: unlimited, limitless (indirect, via limited)
- humble, low, lowly, modest, small - low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
Antonym: superior (indirect, via inferior)
- little, small - not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
Antonym: old (indirect, via young)
- microscopic, microscopical, small - too small to be seen except under a microscope
- modest, small - not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
Antonym: immoderate (indirect, via moderate)
- little, small - (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
Antonym: loud (indirect, via soft)
- small - slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between"
Antonym: much (indirect, via little)
- belittled, diminished, small - made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small"
Antonym: increased (indirect, via decreased)
- little, minuscule, small - lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
Antonym: uppercase (indirect, via lowercase)
- small - have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain"
Antonym: coarse (indirect, via fine)
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