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  • 111littleness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Small size Nouns 1. littleness, smallness, minuteness, diminutiveness; thinness, narrowness; epitome, abstract, brief (see shortness); microcosm; rudiment, miniature; vanishing point. See… …

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  • 112miniature — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. diminutive, minuscule, minute, petite, minikin; dwarf, pygmy, Lilliputian. n. scale model, reduction. See littleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. diminutive, small, tiny; see little 1 , minute 1 .… …

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  • 113small — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. little, tiny, short, wee; dwarfish, undersized, stunted; lowercase; humble; minute, infinitesimal; dainty, petite; trivial, unimportant, petty, small minded; puny, slight, weak; mean, paltry,… …

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  • 114Littleness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Littleness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 littleness littleness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 smallness smallness &c.(of quantity) 32 Sgm: N 1 exiguity exiguity inextension Sgm: N 1 parvitude parvitude parvity …

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  • 115minx — (n.) 1540s, mynx pet dog, later a young, pert, wanton girl [Johnson] (1590s), of uncertain origin, perhaps a shortening of minikin girl, woman, from M.Du. minnekijn darling, beloved, from minne love (see MINNESINGER (Cf. minnesinger)) + kijn,… …

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  • 116tiny — a. Little, small, diminutive, minikin, pygmean, pygmy, puny, Liliputian, dwarfish …

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  • 117wee — a. Little, small, diminutive, tiny, minikin, pygmy, pygmean, Liliputian …

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  • 118dwarfish — adj runty, pygmy, undersized, squat, stunted, atrophied, stubby, dumpy, truncated, scrubby, wizened, (of trees or shrubbery) pollard; short, little, small, miniature, miniscule, minikin, diminutive, tiny, half pint, elfin, bantam, slight,… …

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  • 119little — adj 1. small, tiny, teeny, pint size, wee, mini, short, snub; All Baby Talk. teeny weeny, itty bitty, itsy bitsy, itty, teensy weensy; Lilliputian, elfin, like Tom Thumb, pygmy, Inf. peewee, baby, child s toy, bantam; undersized, underweight,… …

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  • 120minute — I n 1. a short time, a little while, bit, Inf. jiffy, Inf. whipstitch; moment, second, Inf. sec, split second, instant; flash, twinkling, twinkle, breath, trice; eyewink, wink of an eye, Fr. coup d oeil. twinkling of an eye, Inf. bat of an eye,… …

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