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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"
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limited in size or scope;
"a small business"
"a newspaper with a modest circulation"
"small-scale plans"
"a pocket-size country"
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(of children and animals) young, immature;
"what a big little boy you are"
"small children"
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slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope;
"a series of death struggles with small time in between"
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low or inferior in station or quality;
"a humble cottage"
"a lowly parish priest"
"a modest man of the people"
"small beginnings"
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lowercase;
"little a"
"small a"
"e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
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(of a voice) faint;
"a little voice"
"a still small voice"
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have fine or very small constituent particles;
"a small misty rain"
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not large but sufficient in size or amount;
"a modest salary"
"modest inflation"
"helped in my own small way"
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made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth);
"her comments made me feel small"
