Diminutive
Diminutive adjective - Of a size that is less than average.
Usage example: a single diminutive shrub on the edge of the lawn
Nearby Words: diminution, diminutively
Large
Large adjective - Of a size greater than average of its kind.
Usage example: he was hungry, so he ordered the large pizza
Both words in one sentence
- Mary Poppins: In the Supercalifragilisticexpalidocious sequence, one large cartoon woman in plays a percussion instrument by slamming it on her diminutive husband's head.
- Jim Moriarty seems to deliberately invoke this trope; being diminutive in stature, large-eyed, and Irish (with the sing-song accent to match) definitely helps.
Source: Adorkable / Live-Action TV -
A race of diminutive grayish aliens with large heads appears in Andrey Belianin's The Thief of Baghdad novel, despite the novel's fantasy genre.
Source: The Greys
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