Big and Smallish

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Big

Big adjective - Of a size greater than average of its kind.
Usage example: bought a big apple to quench his raging appetite
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Smallish is an antonym for big.
Nearby Word: bigness

Smallish

Smallish adjective - Of a size that is less than average.
Usage example: a smallish row of bushes lining the yard
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Big is an antonym for smallish in little topic.
Nearby Word: small
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  • The Dark Crystal actually has two short-ish races, the smallish Gelfling and the even smaller "Pod People" (who look kind of like potatoes and live in big seed pods).
    Source: Little People
  • Drop the Hammer Rolemaster averts the 'big block of steel on a stick' style of War Hammer, depicting it as a quite realistic long-handled weapon with a smallish hammer head and a back spike (The Standard System edition even includes a picture).
    Source: Drop the Hammer
  • Stock Dinosaurs The other dinosaurs are much less familiar - Acrocanthosaurus (a big theropod possibly related to Allosaurus), Astrodon (a smallish by sauropod standards relative of Brachiosaurus), and the ankylosaur Gastonia.
    Source: Stock Dinosaurs
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