low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions |
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | relatively dense in consistency |
(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | abounding; having a lot of |
small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) | (used informally) associated on close terms |
lowercase | having component parts closely crowded together |
(of a voice) faint | hard to pass through because of dense growth |
(informal) small and of little importance | (of darkness) densely dark |
(of children and animals) young, immature | having a short and solid form or stature |
| (used informally) stupid |
| spoken as if with a thick tongue |