tiny
adjective
Synonyms
- atomic
- bitsy
- bitty
- infinitesimal
- itty-bitty
- itsy-bitsy
- little bitty
- microminiature
- microscopic
- microscopical
- miniature
- minuscule
- minute
- teensy
- teensy-weensy
- teeny
- teeny-weeny
- wee
- weeny
- weensy
Example Sentences
Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022 Crammed into a tiny room under the stadium, Nick Saban is set to address the 20-19 win over Texas. Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2022 Of course, your tiny dorm room likely isn’t going to offer expansive space for food storage, but there are a couple ways to creatively get around that. Audrey Bruno, SELF, 6 Sep. 2022 Tomljanovic was younger, a tiny bit better and most of all unrelenting in the biggest moment of her career. Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2022 Sliding a heavy-duty padlock off a thick metal door, Ms. Karore and her team file into the tiny room that serves as their headquarters, and sit on blue plastic chairs. Mukelwa Hlatshwayo, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2022 Everyone was a tiny bit skeptical of the idea that Destiny 2 season 18, now called Season of Plunder, would be launching its raid race for the reprised raid just three days after launch. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022 Inflation eased a tiny bit in June as prices began to fall for some of the goods and services that are used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2022 For its fourth-generation foldable designs, Samsung has slimmed down the hinge and the bezels around the screen(s), making the devices a tiny bit more compact than their predecessors. Julian Chokkattu Parker Hall, Wired, 10 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
alteration of Middle English tine
1598, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
tiny
adjective
tiny
adjective
Synonyms & Similar Words
- minuscule
- miniature
- small
- microscopic
- teeny
- teensy
- bitty
- wee
- weeny
- infinitesimal
- bitsy
- little
- itty-bitty
- itsy-bitsy
- atomic
- microminiature
- weensy
- microscopical
- teeny-weeny
- smallish
- baby
- teensy-weensy
- little bitty
- mini
- petite
- diminutive
- micro
- minute
- model
- dinky
- dwarf
- pocket
- puny
- elfin
- pygmy
- pocket-sized
- insignificant
- minikin
- undersized
- pocket-size
- scrubby
- dwarfish
- pint-sized
- Lilliputian
- half-pint
- pint-size
- undersize
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- large
- gigantic
- huge
- giant
- enormous
- massive
- big
- colossal
- monstrous
- mammoth
- mountainous
- immense
- tremendous
- sizable
- sizeable
- prodigious
- monumental
- monster
- substantial
- cosmic
- major
- elephantine
- titanic
- largish
- astronomical
- great
- oversized
- heroic
- planetary
- considerable
- outsized
- herculean
- bulky
- hefty
- extensive
- grand
- handsome
- astronomic
- gross
- super
- jumbo
- outsize
- goodly
- overgrown
- good
- hulking
- whopping
- oversize
- cosmical
- heroical
- majestic
- formidable
- vast
- stupendous
- lofty
- monolithic
- grandiose
- staggering
- imposing
- bumper
- towering
- overscaled
- cavernous
- infinite
- voluminous
- overscale
- whacking
- king-sized
- immeasurable
- vasty
- king-size
- boundless
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of tiny are diminutive, little, miniature, minute, and small. While all these words mean "noticeably below average in size," tiny is an informal equivalent to minute.
While in some cases nearly identical to tiny, diminutive implies abnormal smallness.
The meanings of little and tiny largely overlap; however, little is more absolute in implication often carrying the idea of petiteness, pettiness, insignificance, or immaturity.
The words miniature and tiny can be used in similar contexts, but miniature applies to an exactly proportioned reproduction on a very small scale.
Although the words minute and tiny have much in common, minute implies extreme smallness.
Both small and little are often interchangeable, but small applies more to relative size determined by capacity, value, number.