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SMALLISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does smallish mean?
• SMALLISH (adjective)
The adjective SMALLISH has 1 sense:
1. rather small
Familiarity information: SMALLISH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rather small
Similar:
little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Context examples
He pointed to a smallish, dark, well-dressed man who was bustling along the other side of the road.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For my own part, being a smallish man, I should have seen nothing had I not found an upturned bucket in a corner, upon which I perched myself with the wall at my back.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The smallish ears are pendant.
(Curly-Coated Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)
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