Definition of: small

(smôl) adjective
1. Comparatively less than another or than a standard; diminutive; little.
2. Being of slight moment, weight, or importance.
3. Lacking in moral or mental breadth; narrow; ignoble; mean; paltry.
4. Lacking in the qualities of greatness; not largely gifted.
5. Acting or transacting business in a limited way.
6. Weak in characteristic properties; mildly alcoholic: said of liquors: small beer.
7. Having little body or volume; slender; fine; soft, as a voice.
8. Of low degree; obscure.
9. Lacking in power or strength.
—to feel small To feel humiliated.
—adverb
1. In a low or faint tone: to sing small.
2. Into small pieces.
3. In a small way; trivially; also, timidly; to talk small.
— noun
1. A small or slender part: the small of the back.
2. A small thing or quantity. [OE smǣl]
—small′ness noun Synonyms (adj.): diminutive, fine, little, mean, microscopic, minute, narrow, petty, puny, tiny. See FINE¹, INSIGNIFICANT, LITTLE.