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no/not enough room to swing a cat
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(Definition of no/not enough room to swing a cat 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
- Extremely small
- 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 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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no-nonsense adjective
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no-questions-asked adjective
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no-show noun
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no-win adjective
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no. noun
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Noah's ark noun
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nob noun
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nobble verb (CATCH ATTENTION)
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nobble verb (CAUSE TO FAIL)
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nobble verb (PERSUADE)
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SMART Thesaurus: Small
Synonyms and related words:
- baby noun
- bijou adjective
- bite-sized adjective
- claustrophobic adjective
- compact adjective
- diminutive adjective
- dinky adjective
- elfin adjective
- little adjective (SMALL)
- midget adjective
- petite adjective
- pint-size(d) adjective
- pocket adjective
- pocket-handkerchief adjective 1
- pocket-handkerchief adjective 2
- pocket-sized adjective
- poky adjective (SMALL)
- portable adjective
- pygmy adjective
- small adjective (LITTLE)
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