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unbig

unbig adjective: not big; small.

Adjective

unbig (comparative more unbig, superlative most unbig)

  1. (rare) Not big; small.
    • precisely as unbig a why as i’m (almost too small for death’s because to find) may,given perfect mercy,live a dream larger than alive any star goes round1958, E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings, 95 Poems, 11th printing, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →ISBN, poem 63
    • Unless I had constant surveillance, with a changing of the guard, I could never succeed in barring our children from the Living Room. I sometimes think it would be nice, but we all live in the Living Room,—an unbig, scrappy family.1969 spring, Tabb Thornton Farinholt, “Golden Mean Mammas”, in Alumnae Magazine, volume 39, number 3, Sweet Briar College, page 13, column 1

Forms of unbig

comparativemore unbig
superlativemost unbig

Origin of unbig

From un- + big.

Questions about unbig

What does unbig mean?
Unbig means not big; small.
What part of speech is unbig?
Unbig is an adjective.

Words near unbig in the dictionary

  1. unbiddenly
  2. unbidding
  3. unbids
  4. unbiennium
  5. unbifurcated
  6. unbig
  7. unbigged
  8. unbigoted
  9. unbihexium
  10. unbilious
  11. unbillable

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