Definition of Smaller

1. Adjective. Small or little relative to something else.

Exact synonyms: Littler
Similar to: Little, Small

Definition of Smaller

1. Adjective. (comparative of small) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smaller

1. small [adj] - See also: small

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smaller

small ubiquitin-related modifiers
small uterus
small vein
small voice
small white
small white aster
small whites
small wonder
smallage
smallages
smallcap
smallcapped
smallclothes
smalle
smalled
smaller (current term)
smaller muscle of helix
smaller pectoral muscle
smaller posterior rectus muscle of head
smallerscale
smallest
smallest cardiac veins
smallest common multiple
smallest common multiples
smallest room
smallest room in the house
smallest scalene muscle
smallest splanchnic nerve
smalleye hammerhead

Literary usage of Smaller

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"KP POWELL, CLINTON, NT OUR smaller colleges also labor under the extremest ... Our smaller colleges are divided now into two groups of students ; those ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"In all of these, apart from group V., the variations were greater than where the average normal curves were greater, and smaller where these were smaller. ..."

3. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... and common species, vary most—Species of the larger genera in each country vary more frequently than the species of the smaller genera—Many of the a\ ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The lower end of the windpipe divides into two smaller tubes, ... each of which enters a lobe of the lungs and subdivides into numerous smaller branches. ..."

5. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin (1878)
"... vary most — Species of the larger genera in each country vary more frequently than the species of the smaller genera—Many of the species of the larger ..."

6. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1902)
"... much diffused, and common species, vary most—Species of the larger genera in each country vary more frequently than the species of the smaller ..."

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