Definition of Smallish

1. Adjective. Rather small.

Similar to: Little, Small

Definition of Smallish

1. a. Somewhat small.

Definition of Smallish

1. Adjective. somewhat small ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smallish

1. somewhat small [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smallish

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
smallgoods
smallholder
smallholders
smallholding
smallholdings
smalling
smallish (current term)
smallmindedness
smallmouth
smallmouths
smallness
smallnesses
smallpox
smallpox blanket
smallpox vaccine
smallpox virus
smallpoxes

Literary usage of Smallish

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

1. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the by Robert Sweet, Edwin Dalton Smith (1827)
"The whole of the genus thrive well in a rich light soil, and are increased by the suckers at the roots. anthers smallish, ovate, attached by their back to ..."

2. Every Man His Own Gardener: The Complete Gardener : Being a Gardener's by John Abercrombie, Thomas Mawe (1832)
"Early Mazagan, smallest and most ealy, Early Lisbon, small, Early long-podded smallish middling; Large long-pod, good middling, ..."

3. A Synopsis of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1882)
"... apothecia smallish to middling, marginal, somewhat pedicellate. ... and the tips filiform; apothecia lateral, smallish to middling-sized. ..."

4. The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge: With an Appendix on by John Baxter (1830)
"smallish, middling. 7. Dwarf Cluster, or Fan—Grows only from jix to twelve inches high ... smallish, middling. IS. Broad Spanish. 10. True sword pod. 13. ..."

5. Buchanan's Journal of Man by Joseph R Buchanan (1855)
"We believe it is a smallish head. In short, from all the statistics we have in ... We know very energetic, prudential and weighty men, with smallish heads, ..."

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