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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TIN'Y, a. [from the root of thin, which see.] Very small; little; puny. [A word used by children, and in burlesque.]
When that I was a little tiny boy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (tinier; -est) Etymology: alteration of Middle English tine Date: 1598 very small or diminutive ; minute Synonyms: see small • tinily adverb • tininess noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (tinier, tiniest) very small or slight. Derivatives: tinily adv. tininess n. Etymology: obs. tine, tyne (adj. & n.) small, a little: ME, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tiny Ti"ny, a. [Compar. Tinier; superl. Tiniest.] [Probably fr. tine, teen, trouble, distress, vexation.] Very small; little; puny. When that I was and a little tiny boy. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tinier, tiniest) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Something or someone that is tiny is extremely small. The living room is tiny... Though she was tiny, she had a very loud voice... ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Little, small, diminutive, minikin, pygmean, pygmy, puny, Liliputian, dwarfish.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Little.

Moby Thesaurus

Lilliputian, bantam, bitsy, bitty, cursory, dainty, delicate, depthless, diminutive, dwarf, dwarfish, elfin, few, fine, footling, inconsequential, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, insignificant, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, lilliputian, little, low, meager, micro, microscopic, midget, mini, miniature, minikin, minim, minuscular, minuscule, minute, negligible, no great shakes, paltry, peewee, petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, pint-sized, pocket, pocket-size, pocket-sized, puny, pygmy, shallow, short, skin-deep, slight, small, superficial, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, trifling, trivial, wee, weeny