Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| atomise | to reduce to atoms. |
| atomize | to reduce to atoms. |
| baby | a very young child; (adj.) like a baby (verb) to treat like a baby |
| bedwarf | to make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of. |
| bitsy | (Coll.) pretty small. |
| bittie | (Scots) a small piece, a short time. |
| bittily | (Adv.) BITTY, tiny. |
| bittiness | the state of being bitty. |
| bittock | (Scots) a small bit of anything; a short distance. |
| bitty | fiddly, in small bits BITTILY. |
| blastie | a dwarf. |
| bubkes | (Yiddish) a very small amount. |
| bubkis | (Yiddish) a very small amount. |
| bupkes | (Yiddish) a very small amount. |
| bupkis | (Yiddish) a very small amount. |
| bupkus | (Yiddish) a very small amount. |
| cantlet | a piece, a fragment. |
| chota | (Hindi) little, as in chota peg, a little drink. |
| crine | (Scots) to shrink or shrivel. |
| diddley | the least amount. |
| diddly | the least amount. |
| diminish | to lessen. |
| diminishingly | (Adv.) DIMINISHING. |
| diminution | the act of diminishing. |
| diminutive | small (noun) a diminutive word, affix, or name |
| diminutively | (Adv.) DIMINUTIVE, small. |
| diminutiveness | the state of being diminutive. |
| drib | a drop, a trickle; (verb, obs.) to do by little and little. |
| dribblet | a drop, a trickle. |
| driblet | a drip, a trickle. |
| droich | (Gaelic) a dwarf. |
| droichy | (Gaelic) dwarfish. |
| durgan | (Dial.) a dwarf, any undersized creature. |
| durgy | dwarfish. |
| dwarf | a very small person (adj.) built like a dwarf, small (verb) to make small |
| dwarfish | like a dwarf. |
| dwarfishly | (Adv.) DWARFISH, like a dwarf. |
| dwarfism | the condition or character of being a dwarf. |
| dwarflike | like a dwarf. |
| dwarfness | the state of being dwarf. |
| dwindle | to decrease steadily. |
| eensy | (Coll.) very small. |
| exiguous | scanty in amount, meager. |
| exiguously | (Adv.) EXIGUOUS, scanty in amount. |
| fewtrils | little things, trifles. |
| flibbert | (Dial.) a small piece. |
| frust | (Sterne) a fragment. |
| granule | a little grain. |
| haet | (Scots) a small amount, a whit. |
| hafflin | (Scots) a halfling. |
| halfling | a half-grown person. |
| homuncle | a little man, a manikin. |
| homuncular | of or like a homunculus. |
| homuncule | a little man; a manikin. |
| homunculus | a little man; a manikin. |
| ickle | (Coll.) little. |
| imminute | (Arch.) lessened, decreased. |
| least | smallest; (adv.) in the smallest degree; (noun) the smallest amount. |
| leetle | an old-fashioned affectation for little. |
| less | a smaller portion or quantity. |
| lilliput | a very small person. |
| lilliputian | very small; (noun) a very small person. |
| little | small (noun) a small quantity |
| littleness | the quality of being little. |
| littlish | somewhat little. |
| micrify | to make small. |
| micromini | extremely small; (noun) something extremely small. |
| microminiature | made on a very small scale. |
| micronise | to reduce to a few microns in diameter. |
| micronize | to reduce to a few microns in diameter. |
| microscale | an extremely small scale. |
| midget | a very small person. |
| mignonne | small and dainty; (noun) a darling. |
| mini | something distinctively smaller than others of its kind. |
| miniature | a small or reduced copy, type or breed of anything; (verb) to miniaturize. |
| miniaturise | to design or construct in small size. |
| miniaturistic | in the style of a miniaturist. |
| miniaturize | to design or construct in small size. |
| minify | to diminish, in appearance or reality. |
| minimise | to make as small as possible. |
| minimiser | one who minimises. |
| minimize | to make as small as possible. |
| minimizer | one who minimizes. |
| minimum | (Lat.) the smallest amount. |
| minimus | (Lat.) a being of the smallest size. |
| minish | (Arch.) to diminish. |
| minutely | (Adv.) MINUTE, small. |
| minuteness | the quality of being minute. |
| minutia | (Lat.) a minute particular or detail. |
| minutial | of or like a minutia, a minute particular or detail. |
| minutiose | of or like a minutia, a minute particular or detail. |
| modicum | (Lat.) a small quantity. |
| morceau | (Fr.) a bit, a morsel. |
| nanoscale | on a very small scale. No -S. |
| nanoworld | the world of the very small. |
| nubbin | a stunted or imperfect ear of maize etc.; (fig.) a residual part, a stub, a stump. |
| particle | a very small piece or part. |
| paucity | smallness of number or quantity. |
| petite | (Fr.) small esp of build; (noun) a clothing size for short women. |
| petiteness | the state of being petite. |
| pettiness | the state of being petty. |
| piddly | insignificant. |
| pigmy | a person of short stature. |
| pintsize | very small. |
| pintsized | very small. |
| puckle | (Scots) a small quantity; a grain of corn. |
| puisny | (Shakesp.) puny. |
| punily | (Adv.) PUNY, small and feeble. |
| puniness | the state of being puny. |
| puny | small and feeble. |
| pygmyism | the state of being a pygmy. |
| scantling | a small portion. |
| scliff | (Scots) a small segment or piece. |
| scrunt | (Scots) anything stunted; a niggard. |
| semimicro | somewhat micro. |
| shaird | a fragment. |
| sherd | a shard, a fragment; now used only in composition, as in potsherd. |
| shreddy | consisting of shreds. |
| shrink | to contract or draw back (noun) an act of shrinking. |
| shrinking | drawing back, shy. |
| shrinkingly | (Adv.) SHRINKING. |
| shrunk | (PaP.) SHRINK, to contract or draw back. |
| shrunken | (PaP.) SHRINK, to contract or draw back. |
| skerrick | (Aust.) a minute quantity, a scrap, as in 'not a skerrick'. |
| skliff | (Scots) a small segment or piece; (verb) to shuffle (the feet). |
| skosh | (Japanese) a small amount. |
| sma | (Scots) small. |
| small | not large (verb) to make or become small |
| smallish | somewhat small. |
| smallness | the state of being small. |
| smidge | a tiny bit. |
| smidgen | a tiny bit. |
| smidgeon | a tiny bit. |
| smidgin | a tiny bit. |
| smithereen | a small fragment; (verb) to break into fragments. |
| smithers | tiny fragments. |
| smytrie | (Scots) a collection of small things. |
| snippet | a small piece of material etc. cut off; a fragment or scrap of information etc. |
| snippetiness | the state of being snippety, ridiculously small. |
| snippety | ridiculously small; petty. |
| stim | (Irish) a very small amount. |
| stunt | a difficult, often showy, performance, enterprise; (verb) to retard the growth of. |
| tad | a small amount. |
| tait | (Scots) a small portion, a pinch. |
| tate | (Scots) a small portion, a pinch. |
| teensy | (Coll.) very small. |
| teentsy | (Coll.) very small. |
| teenty | (Coll.) very small. |
| teeny | (Coll.) very small. |
| thumbling | a diminutive being, a dwarf. |
| tich | a small person. |
| tichy | very small. |
| tidbit | a small portion, a delicacy. |
| tinily | (Adv.) TINY, very small. |
| tininess | the quality of being tiny. |
| tiny | very small. |
| titbit | a small portion, a delicacy. |
| titch | a small person. |
| titchie | very small. |
| titchy | very small. |
| titman | the smallest pig etc. of a litter. |
| ultratiny | very very tiny. |
| undergrown | of small stature; not grown to a full height or size. |
| undersize | below the usual size. |
| undersized | below the usual size. |
| wanze | (Obs.) to decrease, waste away. |
| wee | small (noun) urine; (verb) to urinate |
| weensy | tiny. |
| whit | the smallest particle imaginable. |