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  1. adjective Extremely small; minute. See Synonyms at small.

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  • And it seems as if half of everyone has gathered around what can only be described as a tiny, delicious wound. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 03 - March 2002
  • Recalling her tiny, distant figure in the stadium, her suddenly limp body collapsing to the blood-slick ground while I still cringed from the shot's echoing report. —  AnalogSFF,December2007
  • M T he second time the Rangers visited the sandbar, they approached the saucer from the opposite side of the tiny island, with four men in each of the two inflatable boats. —  chronospace
  • The timeship gleamed brightly within the halo of portable floodlights set up along the sandbar; tiny figures moved along the tiny island, some moving equipment into place, others standing guard with weapons in hand. —  chronospace
  • Chameleonlike sumpah-sumpahs clung to bamboo boles--tiny, picturesque lizards which fled with the speed of light. —  017 - The Thousand Headed Man
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

small ·  single ·  thin ·  slender

Used in the same contextWord Family

tiny:   tiniest ·  tinier
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Alteration of Middle English tine.

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  1. Also teeny (common in childish use); formerly also tinny, tyny; early modern English and late Middle English also tine, tyne; origin uncertain; if the early forms tine, tyne are intended for tiny, with which, at any rate, they have merged, the formation is prob. from tine, variant teen, trouble, sorrow, + -y, the orig. sense of tiny being then ‘fretful, peevish’; cf. peevish, teatish, tettish, adjective, and pet, n., also applied especially to children, and so coming, like tiny, to imply smallness of size, an implication derived also in the case of tiny from the adjective little usually preceding.
 

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