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Definition: Small-minded |
Small-mindedAdjective1. Contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "small-minded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
Synonym: Small-mindedSynonym: petty (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Small-minded |
| English words defined with "small-minded": petty. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Did you just make some small-minded, middle class comment about me, bud? (That '80s Show; writing credit: Irit Boger) Well, you were a baby, and Miss Donovan was a small-minded idiot. (The Birdcage; writing credit: Jean Poiret; Francis Veber) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Small-minded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Small-minded" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "small-minded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 齪 (dirty), 齷 (dirty), 重视小. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kleingeestig (petty), benepen (afraid, in distress, petty, timid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | etspirita (petty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ずる賢い (gap, hastily, impetuously, petty, rapidly, slippage, sly, stingy, to badger, to slide, to slip off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"い (petty, stingy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 작 개의하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | beg-aignagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | all-mindedsmay de espírito mesquinho. (various references) мелочный (hairsplitting, little, meticulous, mingy, niggling, peddling, penny-wise, petty, picayune, small minded). (various references) mezquino (beggarly, cheap, hard-fisted, mean, measly, miserable, paltry, penurious, petty, petty-minded, scabby, scaly, shabby, skimpy, small minded). (various references) ใจแคบ (hidebound, myopic, narrow-minded). (various references) tiểu nhân, ti tiện nhỏ mọn, hẹp hòi (illiberal, insular, narrow-minded), bần tiện (contemptible, illiberal, lousily, mean, meanly, meant, small). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-l-l-m-m-n-s" | |
-2 letters: landslide, middleman. | |
-3 letters: dilemmas, islanded, landside, landslid, manilles, melanism, midlands, milldams, misnamed. | |
-4 letters: ainsell, almsmen, ammines, dallied, dallies, dandies, dandles, demands, denials, diadems, dialled, dilemma, dindles, laddies, maddens, maidens, mailmen, malines, manille, medials, medians, medinas, melisma, menials, middens, middles, midland, mildens, milldam, misdeal, mislead, mismade, misname, sallied, seminal, sideman, slammed, slidden, slimmed, snailed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6D 61 6C 6C 2D 6D 69 6E 64 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101101 01100001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S m a l l - m i n d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006D 0061 006C 006C 002D 006D 0069 006E 0064 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537967787815797580707170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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