smallness

US pronunciation

American soundsmallness

smallness

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

smal - lness -> smallness

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

၁။ သေးသော။ နည်းသော။ သေးဖွဲသော။
a small house/town/room/car ❍ a small claims court (ie for minor legal claims) ❍ a small amount of money ❍ This hat is too small for me. ❍ Children learn better in small classes.
❍ ‘I don't agree,’ he said in a small (ie quiet) voice. Compare BIG
၂။ ငယ်ရွယ်သော။ We have three small children. ❍ We lived in the country when I was small.
၃။ (က) အသေး။ အငယ်။ …သိမ်။ the small intestine. (ခ) (ရောမအက္ခရာ)စာလုံးသေး။
၄။ အသေးစား။ အငယ်စား။ a small farmer/ trader/shopkeeper/company ❍ more help for small businesses.
၅။ အနည်းငယ်။ make a few small changes to the report ❍ There are only small differences between the two translations.
၆။ (used with uncountable nouns) နည်းပါး သော။ မရှိသော။ The government has small cause for optimism.
adv
၁။ နုပ်နုပ်။ အမြွှာမြွှာ။ chop it up small.
၂။ သေးသေး။ You can get it all in if you write very small.
n
၁။ smalls [pl] (dated Brit infml ) အတွင်းခံစသည် အဝတ်အစား အတိုအထွာ။
၂။ [sing] ကျဉ်းသောအပိုင်း။ He felt a sharp pain in the small of the/his back.
❏ (be) grateful/thankful for small mercies [IDM ] (ဒီထက်မဆိုးတာ) တော်ပါသေးရဲ့။ It may be cold but at least it's not raining—let's be thankful for small mercies.
❏ it's a small world [IDM ] (saying ) ကမ္ဘာက ကျဉ်းကျဉ်း လေးပါ။ (ရှောင်ပုန်းနေလို့ မရနိုင်ပါ။ )
❏ look/feel small [IDM ] သိမ်ငယ်သည်။ There's no need to make me look small in front of everybody!
❏ small ads /ædz/ n [pl] (Brit infml ) = CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
❏ small arms n [pl] လက်နက်ငယ်။ small-arms fire.
❏ small beer n [U] (Brit infml ) အသေးအဖွဲ။ It seems a lot of money but it's small beer to a large organization like that.
❏ small change n [U] (ငွေ)အကြွေ။ I dropped some small change into the collecting tin.
❏ a small fortune n [sing] ငွေအမြောက်အမြား။ The car cost me a small fortune.
❏ small fry n [pl v ] (infml ) ပါမွှား။
❏ the small hours n [pl] သန်းခေါင်၊ သန်းလွဲ။ working until/into the small hours.
❏ smallish /'smç:lÇƒ/ adj ခပ်သေးသေး။ smallness n [U]
❏ small-minded adj (derog ) သဘောထားသေး သိမ်သော။
small-mindedness n [U]
❏ the small print n [U] စာချုပ်စာတမ်းများ၌ စာလုံးသေး များဖြင့်ရိုက်နှိပ်ထားပြီး ဖတ်သူမျက်စိလျှမ်းတတ်သော အပိုင်း။ Make sure you read all the small print before signing.
❏ small-scale adj
၁။ (ရုပ်ပုံ၊ မြေပုံစသည်) စကေးအကျဉ်းဖြင့် ရေးဆွဲထားသော။
၂။ အသေးစား။ small-scale farming/farmers. Compare LARGE-SCALE
❏ the small screen n [sing] ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား(ဖန်သားပြင်)။ (ရုပ်ရှင်ပိတ်ကားကြီးနှင့်ယှဉ်၍သုံးသော အသုံး)။ the film's first showing on the small screen.
❏ small talk n [U] ထွေရာလေးပါး။ He has no small talk (ie is not good at talking to people about ordinary or unimportant things).
❏ small-time adj (infml derog ) ပါမွှား။ a small-time crook.
❏ small-town adj တောမကျ မြို့မကျ။ small-town attitudes.

More examples

These shoes are too small for me.
A small number of people have complained about the noise.
Last year’s rise in unemployment was the smallest in the last five years.
I’d rather work for a smaller company.
Can you do me a small favour?
I noticed a few small mistakes in your essay.
Today’s meeting was a small but important step towards achieving our goals.
[in a/some small way] : I’d like to help, even if it’s only in a small way.
Joan gave me a small gift for my birthday.
A new mutual fund that is ideal for small investors
A small sigh
Write small so that everything will fit on one page.

Synonyms

little, minute, tiny, diminutive, miniature, petite, undersized, baby, bantam, base, bitty, burger joint, bush-league, cafÃ©, cake shop, chophouse, coffee bar, cramped, eating house, elf, fay, grease joint, grudging, hash house, humble, ignoble, illiberal, immature, inadequate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, insufficient, lesser, light, limited, lower, lunchroom, meager, mean, microscopic, mini, minor, minor-league, minuscule, modest, narrow, narrow-minded, nasty, negligible, nisse, noshery, packet, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, pint-sized, pitiful, pocket-sized, poor, puny, quantity, quick-lunch, runty, scanty, scrubby, secondary, selfish, set, short, shrimp, slight, small-fry, small-scale, small-time, soup house, stunted, tearoom, teensy, teeny, toy, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant, unpretentious, vulgar, wee, young

Antonyms

CD, adequate, benevolent, big, broad-minded, capital, consequential, considerate, distinguished, enormous, excellent, famous, fat, fine, first-class, first-rate, generous, giant, giving, great, huge, humongous, immense, important, initials, kind, large, liberal, major, majuscule, noble, political front, principal city, rich, significant, small cap, substantial, sufficient, superior, tall, the Hill, thick, uncial, unlimited, unrestricted, untrivial, useful, wealthy, wide