Tiny
['taɪnɪ] or ['taɪni]
Definition
(superl.) Very small; little; puny.
Editor: Woodrow
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Little, small, diminutive, minikin, pygmean, pygmy, puny, Liliputian, dwarfish.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Puny, wee, small, little, diminutive, Lilliputian, microscopic
ANT:Huge, bulky, gigantic, cyclopean, sizable, considerable
Edited by Kelsey
Definition
adj. (comp. Tī′nier,superl. Tī′niest) thin: very small."
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Examples
- The tiny yeast plants multiply and continue to make alcohol and gas, and in consequence, the dough becomes lighter and lighter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He looked up and saw it high and tiny and silver in the sun, seeming hardly to move in the high sky. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You speak against a tiny disc of sheet-iron, and the disc trembles. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Shortly after the discovery of yeast in the nineteenth century, man commenced his attempt to cultivate the tiny organisms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Now, near the Palace where this Princess lived, there was a cottage in which there was a poor little tiny woman, who lived all alone by herself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I fear the kitten has rolled it away, said the tiny old lady, involuntarily continuing her beaver-like notes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Try lower down, and pick those that have no thorns, said Amy, gathering three of the tiny cream-colored ones that starred the wall behind her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Away at the landing stage, tiniest points of coloured rays were stringing themselves in the dusk. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The red one in all probability cannot swim, I said, since there is scarce enough water in all their domains to float the tiniest craft. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Other children in grief or pain cry aloud, without shame or restraint; but this being wept: the tiniest occasional sniff testified to her emotion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest iota from your appearance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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