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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
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

tiny

a. diminuto-a;
muy pequeño, microscópico-a.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
If I happened to walk home with her, she told me all about the dresses she was helping to make, or about what she saw and heard when she was with Tiny Soderball at the hotel on Saturday nights.
Now, near the Palace where this Princess lived, there was a cottage in which there was a poor little tiny woman, who lived all alone by herself.'
"It can easily be seen that I only thought I heard the tiny voice say the words!
His tiny surcoat of scarlet velvet was rich with embroidery, while beneath was a close-fitting tunic of white silk.
Against the foot of a steep-sloped knoll he came upon a magnificent group of redwoods that seemed to have gathered about a tiny gurgling spring.
At night great beasts snarled and roared about their tiny cabin, but, so accustomed may one become to oft repeated noises, that soon they paid little attention to them, sleeping soundly the whole night through.
At this the Wizard made a bow to the people and repeated his trick of producing the nine tiny piglets and making them disappear again.
One of these matches I struck, and its dim flame lighted up what appeared to be a huge cave, toward the back of which I discovered a strange, still figure huddled over a tiny bench.
It is not the ship that takes her departure; the seaman takes his Departure by means of cross-bearings which fix the place of the first tiny pencil-cross on the white expanse of the track-chart, where the ship's position at noon shall be marked by just such another tiny pencil cross for every day of her passage.
I can hold you in my hand, and could not live among you without harming your tiny kingdom, I am so large."
So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder.
She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with its upper lip covered with tiny black hair.