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Small-minded

Definition: Small-minded

Small-minded

Adjective

1. 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-minded

Synonym: petty (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Small-minded

English words defined with "small-minded": petty. (references)

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Modern Usage: Small-minded

DomainUsage

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.

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Usage Frequency: Small-minded

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2471,196

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Small-minded

Language Translations for "small-minded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(dirty), (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

   

Portuguese

  

de espírito mesquinho. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мелочный (hairsplitting, little, meticulous, mingy, niggling, peddling, penny-wise, petty, picayune, small minded). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mezquino (beggarly, cheap, hard-fisted, mean, measly, miserable, paltry, penurious, petty, petty-minded, scabby, scaly, shabby, skimpy, small minded). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ใจแคบ (hidebound, myopic, narrow-minded). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tiểu nhân, ti tiện nhỏ mọn, hẹp hòi (illiberal, insular, narrow-minded), bần tiện (contemptible, illiberal, lousily, mean, meanly, meant, small). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Small-minded

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Small-minded


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6D 61 6C 6C 2D 6D 69 6E 64 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101101 01100001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#109 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006D 0061 006C 006C 002D 006D 0069 006E 0064 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537967787815797580707170

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INDEX

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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