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    меньше; меньший
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. littler (adj.) lighter; littler; meaner; minuter; more borne; more casual; more ineffectual; more insignificant; more limited; more narrow-minded; more set; more shoestring; more small-beer; more small-minded; more unimportant; paltrier
    2. lower (adj.) lower; more hushed; more low-key; more subdued; quieter; softer
    3. more bantam (adj.) more bantam; more monkey; more petite; more smallish
    4. more under (adj.) more inferior; more lesser; more lower; more minor; more minor-league; more secondary; more under
    5. not as big (adj.) lesser; more stunted; narrower; not as big; scrawnier; shallower; shorter; tinier
    6. pettier (adj.) measlier; more inconsequent; more inconsequential; more inconsiderable; more niggling; more peanut; more peddling; more pettifogging; more picayune; more picayunish; more piddling; more piffling; more pimping; more trifling; more trivial; more unconsequential; more unconsidered; more ungenerous; more unvital; pettier; punier
    7. remoter (adj.) more negligible; more off; more outside; remoter; slenderer; slighter; slimmer

    English-Russian base dictionary > smaller

См. также в других словарях:

  • measlier — mea·sly || mːɪzlɪ adj. affected with the measles; pertaining to or resembling the measles; scrappy, wretched, poor (Slang) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • measly — adjective (measlier; est) Date: 1687 1. infected with measles 2. a. containing larval tapeworms b. infested with trichinae 3. contemptibly small …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • measly — /mee zlee/, adj., measlier, measliest. 1. Informal. a. contemptibly small, meager, or slight: They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day s work. b. wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory: a measly performance. 2. infected with measles, as an… …   Universalium

  • measly — adjective (measlier, measliest) informal contemptibly small or few. Origin C16 (describing a pig or pork infected with measles): from measles + y1 …   English new terms dictionary

  • measly — UK [ˈmiːzlɪ] / US [ˈmɪzlɪ] adjective Word forms measly : adjective measly comparative measlier superlative measliest informal too small I can t afford to buy a car on my measly salary …   English dictionary

  • measly — /ˈmizli / (say meezlee) adjective (measlier, measliest) 1. infected with measles, as an animal or its flesh. 2. relating to or resembling measles. 3. (of beef or pork) infected with cysts or tapeworms of the genus Taenia. 4. Colloquial wretchedly …  

  • measly — ► ADJECTIVE (measlier, measliest) informal ▪ ridiculously small or few …   English terms dictionary

  • measly — [mēz′lē] adj. measlier, measliest 1. infected with MEASLES (sense 1 or 2) 2. Informal contemptibly slight, worthless, or skimpy …   English World dictionary

  • measly — adj. (measlier, measliest) 1 colloq. inferior, contemptible, worthless. 2 of or affected with measles. 3 (of pork) infested with tapeworms. Etymology: MEASLES + Y(1) …   Useful english dictionary

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