smallness

Roget-categorie 32

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.3. Quantity
›› 1.3.2. Comparative quantity

#32. Smallness

zelfstandig naamwoord

smallness etc. adj. — littleness etc. (small size) 193 — tenuity — paucity — fewness etc. (small number) 103 — 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 etc. (part) 51 — drop in the ocean.
animalcule etc. 193.
trifle etc. (unimportant thing) 643 — mere nothing, next to nothing — hardly anything — just enough to swear by — the shadow of a shade.
finiteness, finite quantity.

werkwoord

be small etc. adj. — lie in a nutshell.
diminish etc. (decrease) 36 — (contract) 195.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

small, little — diminutive etc. (small in size) 193 — minute — fine — inconsiderable, paltry etc. (unimportant) 643 — faint etc. (weak) 160 — slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited — meager etc. (insufficient) 640 — sparing — few etc. 103 — 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.

bijwoord

to a small extent [in a small degree], on a small scale — a little bit, a wee bit — slightly etc. adj. — imperceptibly — miserably, wretchedly — insufficiently etc. 640 — imperfectly — faintly etc. 160 — passably, pretty well, well enough.
[in a certain or limited degree] 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 [Fr.], in ever so small a degree — thus far, pro tanto [It], 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 [Fr.], near the mark — within an ace of, within an inch of — on the brink of — scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than.
about [in an uncertain degree], thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say — be the same, be little more or less.
no ways [in no degree], 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.

uitdrukking

dare pondus idonea fumo [Lat.] [Persius]; magno conatu magnas nugas [Lat.] [Terence]; small sands the mountain, moments make the small sands the mountain, moments make the year" [Young]. 2 QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A SIMILAR OBJECT

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