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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: smaller than normal for its kind [syn: undersize, undersized]

Merriam Webster's

also undersize adjective Date: 1706 of a size less than is common, proper, normal, or average <undersized trout>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. of less than the usual size.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Undersized Un"der*sized`, a. Of a size less than is common.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Undersized people or things are smaller than usual, or smaller than they should be. ...undersized and underweight babies... They squashed into an undersized reception room... He was undersized, as were all the Tibetan children I was to meet. ? oversized ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Small, dwarfish, little, stunted.

Moby Thesaurus

Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, bantam, bony, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, incipient, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, little, meager, midget, nanoid, petite, pygmy, rawboned, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scraggy, scrawny, scrubby, short, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skinny, slight, small, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, squat, stunted, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tiny, twiggy, underdeveloped, undersize, underweight, undeveloped, wizened