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very small
tiny
very small – used about objects, numbers, or amounts:
• a tiny island • Dairy foods provide your body with a tiny amount of vitamin D.
teeny
informal very small - used for emphasis:
• I'll just have a teeny bit of cream. • There's just one teeny little problem. • a teeny little house
minute
extremely small and extremely difficult to see or notice:
• They found minute traces of poison in his body. • The differences are minute. • minute creatures
miniature
a miniature camera, watch, railway etc is made in a very small size. A miniature horse, dog etc is bred to be a very small size:
• The spy used a miniature camera. • the fashion for miniature pets
microscopic
extremely small and impossible to see without special equipment:
• microscopic organisms • microscopic particles of dust
minuscule
extremely small in a surprising way:
• She was wearing a minuscule bikini. • The threat from terrorism is minuscule compared to other risks in our lives.
itty-bitty/itsy-bitsy
[ only before noun ] American English informal very small:
• An itty-bitty little bug crawled across his forehead. • We stayed at some itty-bitty hotel in a back street.
Longman-Thesaurus
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adj. VERBS be, feel, look, seem | become ADV. extremely, really, very | quite | comparatively, relatively The minister appealed to the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of £4 billion. PHRASES little tiny/tiny little Look at his little tiny fingers. Aren't they sweet?
Oxford Collocations Dictionary