smallish
smallish adjective: somewhat small.
Adjective
smallish
- Somewhat small.
- I may say that I'm a married man, living with my wife at that address—a smallish flat which suits us very well as we have no children.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
- Quite a few minutes would be spun out, for instance, at the smallish town of Chirk, but to me the dalliance was generally worthwhile, except in wet weather, because of the increasing beauty of the wooded hill scenery thereabouts.1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18
smallish meaning in Urdu
smallish in Urdu
- چھوٹا, موٹا
Examples of smallish in a sentence
- All Bill caught were two smallish sunperch, barely worth the effort to clean and cook.
- Their smallish brains were barely larger than those of a modern chimp.
- In the smallish Thai city where I live, most ex-pats, foreigners or Farangs put little stock in learning Thai.
Origin of smallish
From Middle English smalish, equivalent to small + -ish.
Words formed from smallish
Questions about smallish
- What does smallish mean?
- Smallish means somewhat small.
- What is smallish in Urdu?
- Smallish in Urdu is چھوٹا, موٹا. See Smallish meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is smallish?
- Smallish is an adjective.
Words near smallish in the dictionary
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