micro
adjective /ˈmaɪ.krəʊ/
/-kroʊ/ Definition
› describes something that is very small: The company has a 20 percent share in the market for mini or micro cars.Extremely smallSmall
(Definition of micro adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
- Augmenting and supplementing
- Available and accessible
- Becoming and making smaller or less
- Becoming bigger
- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
- Plenty and abundant
- Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- Small
- Small in number and quantity
- Some and quite
- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Things remaining
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
- Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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Synonyms and related words:
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
- fractional adjective
- imperceptible adjective
- infinitesimal adjective
- irreducible adjective
- itsy-bitsy adjective
- Lilliputian adjective
- micro- prefix (SMALL)
- microscopic adjective
- miniature adjective
- minuscule adjective
- minute adjective
- nano- prefix
- subatomic adjective
- teeny adjective
- tiddly adjective (SMALL)
- tiny adjective
- titchy adjective
- weeny adjective
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