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minuteadjective including many small descriptive featuresa minute description of the setting of the story blow-by-blow, circumstantial, detailed, elaborate, full, particular, particularized, thorough enumerated, inventoried, itemized, listed, numerateddelineated, specific, specifiedabundant, copiouscomprehensive, encyclopedic, exhausting, exhaustive, inclusionary, inclusive, in-depth, omnibus, panoramic, thoroughgoingaccurate, correct, exact, precisecomplete, entire, repletedistinct, explicit, sharpmapped (out)descriptive, graphic(also graphical), picturesque, vivid compendious, summary brief, compact, concise, crisp, pithy, short, succinct, terseabbreviated, abridged, curtailed, cut, pruned, shortened, trimmedambiguous, indeterminate, nebulous, nondescript, sketchy, vaguebird's-eye, broad, general, nonspecific, overall, unspecified lacking importancea person who wastes her time on the most minute aspects of everyday life fiddling, foolish, frivolous, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, Mickey Mouse, minor, negligible, nugatory, slight, small, small-fry, trifling, trivial, unimportant jerkwater, one-horsenickel-and-dime, paltry, petty, small-time, worthlessanonymous, nameless, obscure, uncelebrated, unknown neither here nor there big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, unfrivolous, weighty decisive, fatal, fatefulchief, dominant, overbearing, overmastering, overriding, principaldistinctive, exceptional, impressive, outstanding, prominent, remarkablevaluable, worthwhile, worthydistinguished, eminent, great, illustrious, preeminent, prestigiousfamous, notorious, renownedall-important, basic, essential, fundamental, key so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attentiononly minute differences between the two photographic prints chicken, de minimis, footling, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, measly, Mickey Mouse, negligible, niggling, no-account, nominal, paltry, peanut, petty, picayune, piddling, piddly, piffling, pimping, slight, trifling, trivial inferior, meanimperceptible, inappreciablelittle, puny, tinyhairsplitting, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibblingone-horse, small-fry, two-bit big, consequential, considerable, important, material, significant serious, substantial, weightyeventful, momentous, pivotalconspicuous, noteworthy, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, strikingappreciable, discernible(also discernable), measurable made or done with extreme care and accuracya minute examination of the marine specimen delicate, exact, fine, finespun, hairline, hairsplitting, nice, nuanced, refined, subtle nitpicking, quibblingfrivolous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, negligible, petty, piddling, trifling, trivialdemanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, meticulous, particular, picky coarse, inexact, rough apparent, clear, clear-cut, evident, manifest, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, perspicuous, plain, transparent, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakablebroad, indefinitecareless, heedless, incautious, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy very small in sizemade some minute adjustments to the controls atomic, bitsy, bitty, infinitesimal, itty-bitty(or itsy-bitsy), little bitty, microminiature, microscopic(also microscopical), miniature, minuscule, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee, weeny(also weensy) baby, diminutive, dwarf, elfin, half-pint, Lilliputian, little, micro, mini, minikin, model, petite, pocket, pocket-size(also pocket-sized), pygmy, small, smallishdinky, dwarfish, insignificant, pint-size(or pint-sized), puny, scrubby, undersized(also undersize) astronomical(also astronomic), colossal, cosmic(also cosmical), elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantic, herculean, heroic(also heroical), huge, immense, mammoth, massive, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, planetary, prodigious, titanic, tremendous big, bulky, bumper, considerable, extensive, good, goodly, grand, great, gross, handsome, hefty, hulking, jumbo, king-size(or king-sized), large, largish, major, outsize(also outsized), overgrown, overscale(or overscaled), oversize(or oversized), sizable(or sizeable), substantial, super, whacking, whoppingformidable, grandiose, imposing, lofty, majestic, monolithic, staggering, stupendous, toweringboundless, cavernous, immeasurable, infinite, vast, vasty, voluminous a very small space of timeI'll be with you in just a minute beat, eyeblink, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiff, jiffy, moment, nanosecond, New York minute, second, shake, split second, trice, twinkle, twinkling, wink microsecondsnatch, spurt aeon(or eon), age, eternity, foreverinfinity, lifetime adj.small, little, diminutive, minute, tiny, miniature mean noticeably below average in size.small and little are often interchangeable, but small applies more to relative size determined by capacity, value, number.a relatively small backyard little is more absolute in implication often carrying the idea of petiteness, pettiness, insignificance, or immaturity.your pathetic little smile diminutive implies abnormal smallness.diminutive bonsai plants minute implies extreme smallness.a minute amount of caffeine in the soda tiny is an informal equivalent to minute.tiny cracks formed in the painting miniature applies to an exactly proportioned reproduction on a very small scale.a dollhouse with miniature furnishings in the 14th century |