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ti·ny

 (tī′nē)
adj. ti·ni·er, ti·ni·est
Extremely small: The glass shattered into tiny shards that were hard to clean up. See Synonyms at small.

[Alteration of Middle English tine.]

ti′ni·ness n.
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tiny

(ˈtaɪnɪ)
adj, tinier or tiniest
very small; minute
[C16 tine, of uncertain origin]
ˈtinily adv
ˈtininess n
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ti•ny

(ˈtaɪ ni)

adj. -ni•er, -ni•est.
very small; minute.
[1590–1600; late Middle English tine (of obscure orig.) + -y1]
ti′ni•ly, adv.
ti′ni•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.tiny - very smalltiny - very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
little, small - limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"
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tiny

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tiny

adjective
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Translations
صَغير جِداضَغِيرٌ جِدّاً
drobný
lillebitte
pikkuinenpikkuruinen
sićušan
apró
ofurlítill
小さな
아주 작은
mazītiņšsīks
drobcen
mycket liten
เล็กมาก
nhỏ xíu

tiny

[ˈtaɪnɪ] ADJ (tinier (compar) (tiniest (superl))) → diminuto, minúsculo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tiny

[ˈtaɪni] adjminuscule
a tiny bit → un petit peu
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

tiny

adj (+er)winzig, sehr klein; baby, childsehr or ganz klein; tiny littlewinzig klein; a tiny mind (pej)ein winziger Verstand, ein Zwergenverstand m
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tiny

[ˈtaɪnɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → minuscolo/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

tiny

(ˈtaini) adjective
very small. a tiny insect.
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tiny

ضَغِيرٌ جِدّاً drobný lillebitte winzig μικρούτσικος diminuto pikkuruinen minuscule sićušan minuscolo 小さな 아주 작은 uiterst klein knøttlite drobny pequeno крошечный mycket liten เล็กมาก ufak nhỏ xíu 微小的
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tiny

a. diminuto-a;
muy pequeño, microscópico-a.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
She had often thought, though with a feeling of renunciation, that the perfection of a wedding-dress would be a white cotton, with the tiniest pink sprig at wide intervals; so that when Mrs.
Father, I firmly do believe - I know - for Death, who comes for me From regions of the blest afar, Where there is nothing to deceive, Hath left his iron gate ajar, And rays of truth you cannot see Are flashing thro' Eternity -- I do believe that Eblis hath A snare in ev'ry human path - Else how, when in the holy grove I wandered of the idol, Love, Who daily scents his snowy wings With incense of burnt offerings From the most unpolluted things, Whose pleasant bowers are yet so riven Above with trelliced rays from Heaven No mote may shun - no tiniest fly The light'ning of his eagle eye - How was it that Ambition crept, Unseen, amid the revels there, Till growing bold, he laughed and leapt In the tangles of Love's very hair?
Oh, Mary, can you not provide me with the tiniest little plot?
Even the tiniest of children toddled about the feasting fires or sprawled surfeited on the sands.
Any remark, the most insignificant, that showed that the critic saw even the tiniest part of what he saw in the picture, agitated him to the depths of his soul.
He knew nothing in the world would make her put out her hand toward him or startle him in the least tiniest way.
So I must sit up one hour more, and keep a sharper eye than ever for the tiniest glimmer of a sail.
The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
Cautiously she opened her eyes the tiniest bit, and as she did so her heart stood still.
At his back his bow, and in the quiver upon his shield many slim, straight arrows, well smeared with the thick, dark, tarry substance that rendered deadly their tiniest needle prick.
So perhaps it was only the sun that made her brows contract just the tiniest bit at the same instant that she discovered Djor Kantos sitting in earnest conversation with Olvia Marthis, daughter of the Jed of Hastor.
He was a thin, hard-featured man, with an ascetic, acquiline cast of face, grizzled and hollow-cheeked, clean-shaven with the exception of the tiniest curved promontory of ash-colored whisker.