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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smallish/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smallish/#x1)
- She has a smallish dog, about the size of a cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smallish/#x2)
- It was a smallish crowd, maybe fifty people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smallish/#x3)
- Choose a smallish potato for the baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smallish/#x4)
- The school is smallish, with only one class per year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smallish/#x5)
- The answer is a smallish number, somewhere under ten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smallish/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smallish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.