smallish
- adjective
- /ˈsmɔːlɪʃ/
- He bought a smallish car that was perfect for driving in the city.
I have two smallish pieces of muslin for the bra cup.
- I have two smallish pieces of muslin for the bra cup.
- Because there are some women who still have a smallish waist compared to the size of their hips.
- Fairly generic smallish main belt asteroid.
- And we've got one more smallish topic to cover after this, which is diffusion and we'll wrap up on Wednesday.
- Because it kind of looks like a dot, small ish, but we call it that because quantum mechanics takes over the properties.
- I don't know doing that was like that white lad, pretty stocky, smallish, pacey good.
Examples
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We can certainly pull together one smallish wedding.
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A little bit of space on the side here, maybe a smallish water bottle.
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But anyway, I have a kind of smallish hall for you today.
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Up ahead, the door to their smallish hotel room is open.
Fiction book (2000) -
I find these smallish bills so easy to spend.
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I am a doctor myself, in a smallish town in the Midwest.
Blog text (8) -
On display were the shoulders, arms and chest of a smallish man, still trim and attractive.
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Here, sharply carved terrain provides a smallish, nestled port scene.
Academic text (1998) -
Relatively few ethnic Chicagoans marched in the procession, which was itself smallish with approximately five thousand in line.
Academic text (2000) -
Jules Valdo was a smallish man with a pinched mouth and a crease between his brows.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
Not large in size or amount
Used for projects or models that are not large
Antonyms
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word smallish is small plus the ending -ish, which often means 'somewhat' or 'kind of', just like in greenish. So smallish means 'fairly small' or 'somewhat small'.