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say it: smawl
small is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent". It is pronounced /ˈsmɔl/ — smawl. It carries 13 recorded senses.
relatively moderate, limited, or small
“a small business”
“a newspaper with a modest circulation”
“small-scale plans”
“a pocket-size country”
slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
“a series of death struggles with small time in between”
archaism
made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
“her comments made me feel small”
a garment size for a small person
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for small come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.