lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking,
whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy &c. (swollen) 194.
huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous,
stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite &c. 105.
large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a
pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.
immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed; inconceivable, unimaginable,
unheard-of.
of cosmic proportions; of epic proportions, the mother of all, the
granddaddy of all.
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#193. Littleness.—
N. littleness &c. adj.; smallness &c. (of
quantity) 32; exiguity, inextension[obs3]; parvitude[obs3],
parvity[obs3]; duodecimo[obs3]; Elzevir edition, epitome,
microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness &c.
203.
dwarf, pygmy, pigmy[obs3],
Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon[obs3], urchin,
elf; atomy[obs3], dandiprat[obs3]; doll, puppet; Tom
Thumb, Hop-o’-my-thumb[obs3]; manikin, mannikin;
homunculus, dapperling[obs3], cock-sparrow.
animalcule, monad, mite,
insect, emmet[obs3], fly, midge, gnat,
shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon[obs3]; bacteria;
infusoria[obs3]; microzoa[Microbiol]; phytozoaria[obs3];
microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry;
millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain
of sand; molehill, button, bubble.
point; atom &c. (small
quantity) 32; fragment &c. (small part) 51;
powder &c. 330; point of a pin, mathematical point;
minutiae &c. (unimportance) 643.
micrometer; vernier;
scale.
microphotography, photomicrography,
micrography[obs3];
photomicrograph, microphotograph; microscopy; microscope
(optical instruments) 445..
V. be little &c. adj.;
lie in a nutshell; become small &c. (decrease)
36, (contract) 195.
Adj. little; small &c.
(in quantity) 32; minute, diminutive,
microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable &c. (unimportant)
643; exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin[obs3],
miniature, pygmy, pigmy[obs3], elfin; undersized;
dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited;
cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket;
portative[obs3], portable; duodecimo[obs3]; dumpy,
squat; short &c. 201.
impalpable, intangible,
evanescent, imperceptible, invisible,
inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial;
infinitesimal, homoeopathic[obs3]; atomic, subatomic,
corpuscular, molecular; rudimentary, rudimental; embryonic,
vestigial.
weazen|!, scant, scraggy,
scrubby; thin &c. (narrow) 203; granular &c.
(powdery) 330; shrunk &c. 195; brevipennate[obs3].
Adv. in a small compass,
in a nutshell; on a small scale; minutely,
microscopically.


