smallish

«smallish» in Mova's school dictionary: Fairly small; a bit small but not very — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (smallish)

meaning for a pupil

Fairly small; a bit small but not very. tree →

sense in the lessons

The ending «-ish» makes a word less exact: smallish, tallish, sevenish. In everyday talk it softens descriptions. In maths problems «smallish» is not a number; it gives no exact information.

examples

• We live in a smallish house near the park. tree →
• She has a smallish dog, about the size of a cat. tree →
• It was a smallish crowd, maybe fifty people. tree →
• Choose a smallish potato for the baby. tree →
• The school is smallish, with only one class per year. tree →
• The answer is a smallish number, somewhere under ten. tree →

note

Informal; same meaning as «fairly small», «rather small». No comparative form is usually used.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «smallish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.