"small" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

small adjetivo

small + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 2403
small town • small group • small number • small business • small amount • small village • small size • small piece • small island • ...
verbo + small
Kolokacji: 20
grow smaller • look small • feel small • make small • start small • become smaller • ...
adverbio + small
Kolokacji: 71
relatively small • comparatively small • fairly small • considerably smaller • slightly smaller • extremely small • somewhat smaller • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 18
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(5) significantly, mainly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) generally, arbitrarily
Kolokacji: 2
(8) surprisingly, amazingly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) forward, forwards
Kolokacji: 2
(11) pitifully, pathetically
Kolokacji: 2
1. pitifully small = żałośnie mały pitifully small
2. pathetically small = wzruszająco mały pathetically small
  • The crowd is pathetically small, nothing like the 2,000 they were hoping for, although early days obviously.
  • That is a step forward, but a pathetically small one.
  • I was overwhelmed; that magnificent woman had made my problems seem pathetically small.
  • The boy aboard it looked pathetically small, and Ayshe's heart went out to him.
  • They were pathetically small, filling less than half the tabletop.
  • The tablets looked pathetically small, and he was tempted to swallow a handful.
  • He gathered every stone within reach, but they made a pathetically small pile.
  • The numbers, I sorrow to say, invited to attend that council were pathetically small.
  • It seemed to the boy like a pathetically small number of fighters to carry the day, but it was all they had.
  • To the west the land lay spread out like a map and the distance they had travelled in a week was pathetically small.
(12) progressively, increasingly
Kolokacji: 2
(13) incredibly, impossibly
Kolokacji: 2
(16) equally, comparably, similarly
Kolokacji: 3
(18) negligibly
Kolokacji: 1
small + preposición
Kolokacji: 18
small for • small in • small by • small to • small of • ...

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