Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Extremely small; minute. See Synonyms at small.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Very diminutive; minute; wee. It is frequently used with little as an intensification of its force: as, a little tiny boy; a tiny little piece of something.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Very small; little; puny.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very small
Etymologies
- From Middle English tine, tyne ("very small") + -y. Perhaps from tine. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Middle English tine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer seems to think Americans don't care about what he called tiny, porky amendments.”
“He says Americans don't care about what he calls tiny porky amendments.”
“He found in milk, cheese, vinegar, decayed vegetables, and in the blood and secretions of cases of plague bodies, which he described as tiny worms and which he thought were due to putrefaction.”
“Her recommendation: Agnolotti delplin con polline di finocchio, which she describes as tiny pasta pillows stuffed with veal with fennel pollen and crispy veal breast. reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's.”
“Given the building's history, the Occupy protesters said they planned to use it to stage a symbolic "trial of the 1%", a figure the group uses to represent what it describes as a tiny and over-powerful economic elite.”
“News of the World, which he described as a tiny portion of his vast media empire.”
“REYNOLDS: But Toyota pointed out today that these new complaints involve what it called a tiny fraction of the more than one million recalled vehicles its dealers have repaired so far.”
“When you consider that the former Soviet Union had the capacity to destroy the world and Iran does not, "tiny" is an apt description.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tiny’.
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steffany(grade 2)
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base, beach and 127 more...
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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jackgrade2
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, atlas, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base and 127 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Learning
For me to learn new words.
Bahamian, gamble, democratic, subsequent, horror, inherited, individuate, replete, prone, tiny, choreographer, magnetic and 7 more...
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Small in Size
Short and cute synonyms for small
wee, little, tiny, mini, lil, bitty, teensy, itsy, bitsy, teeny, petite, weeny and 6 more...
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Nicknames you shouldn't give to an ax...
primrose, snookums, lavender, piglet, rainbow sunshine, kitten, fuzzy, sweetie, wiggles, care bear, love-a-lot, cheery and 87 more...
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Adjectives for XKCD936-compliant pass...
A list of 2048 common English adjectives that could be used to create plausible, memorable random phrases.
I'm going to use this list in a password generator, inspired by big, small, happy, sad, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, near, far and 19 more... -
Small stuff
Adjectives that describe small objects.
small, tiny, diminutive, little, dinky, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teeny, bitsy, bitty, bantam, teensy and 23 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Words from books I've read
These are some words I didn't know when I read and now I want to know!
Scribble, Newfangled, swift, swathe, budget, obstreperous, trickle, rank, covetous, scratch, hunch, dodge and 179 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tiny.
Durvin Is anybody aware of "tiny" meaning something in gang slang? I was looking at that bizarre list from the FBI of all the known gangs active in the United States, and I kept seeing things like "Tiny Papi Squad" and "Tiny Rascal Gangsters" (and others I didn't write down because they weren't so bizarre)--often enough that it seems like it must mean something. Oct 2, 2012