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small-time

small-time adjective: on a small scale.

Adjective

small-time (not comparable)

  1. On a small scale.
    • a small-time thief
    Synonyms:
    minor, petty, small-scale
    Antonyms:
    bigtime

small-time meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

small-time in Malayalam

small-scale, minor, petty
ചെറിയരീതിയിലുള്ള, ലഘുവായ, ചെറുകിടക്കാരനായ, ചെറുകിട, അഗണനീയ, അപ്രമുഖമായ

small-time in Kannada

ಅಮುಖ್ಯ, ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ, ಕೀಳು ದರ್ಜೆಯ, ಕಳಪೆಯ

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Words formed from small-time

Questions about small-time

What does small-time mean?
Small-time means on a small scale.
What is small-time in Malayalam?
Small-time in Malayalam is ചെറിയരീതിയിലുള്ള, ലഘുവായ, ചെറുകിടക്കാരനായ. See Small-time meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is small-time?
Small-time is an adjective.

Words near small-time in the dictionary

  1. small-talk
  2. small-talker
  3. small-talkers
  4. small-talky
  5. small-ticket
  6. small-time
  7. small-timer
  8. small-timers
  9. small-toothed palm civet
  10. small-toothed palm civets
  11. small-town

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: small-time (page history and authors); small-time (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); small-time (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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