smallish
Speech parts
1. smallish - Adjective
2. smallish - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Somewhat small.
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Examples
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
Save one, whose patience or whose pride was more than all the rest. So one place, one untouched place in all the world remained, a rather smallish forest near the sea and near humankind, keeping a time different than elsewhere.
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.
Dan Seeman is a 1979 graduate of Arlington-Green Isle High School, and thus knowledgeable in the genealogy of those smallish prairie towns south of the Twin Cities.
About two hundred people, at the most, were individually escorted into a smallish room at the JFK Library, and I must say, I was nervous.
And just a smallish backpack for luggage.