un·der·sized

(ŭn′dər-sīzd′) also un·der·size (-sīz′)

adj.

Of less than normal or sufficient size.

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undersized

(ˌʌndəˈsaɪzd) or

undersize

adj

of less than usual size

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un•der•sized

(ˈʌn dərˈsaɪzd)

adj.

smaller than the usual or normal size.

[1650–60]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

undersized - smaller than normal for its kind

undersize

little, small - limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"

undersized

adjective stunted, underdeveloped, small, tiny, miniature, squat, atrophied, underweight, teeny-weeny, dwarfish, teensy-weensy, runty, runtish, pygmy or pigmy undersized and underweight babies
big, huge, giant, massive, overweight, colossal, oversized

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Translations

minuscolo

undersized

[ˈʌndəˈsaɪzd] ADJ (= too small) → demasiado pequeño

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

undersized

[ˌʌndə^rˈsaɪzd] adj [room] → de dimensions insuffisantes; [fish] → immature

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

undersized

[ˌʌndəˈsaɪzd] adj (pej) → troppo piccolo/a

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The waiter himself--a small, undersized person with black, startled eyes set at that moment in a fixed and unnatural stare-made one desperate effort to save himself and then fell backwards.

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I believe they were fat, though I was at that time undersized for my years, and not strong.

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This was said by the undersized Napoleon, looking up straight into Alexander's eyes.

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At any rate he was wretchedly sick and undersized; he had the rickets, and though he was over three years old, he was no bigger than an ordinary child of one.

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In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-- and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak--there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

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The waiter, an undersized youth with a flat, spotty face, hurried to and fro carrying a tray laden with glasses of beer.

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But the whole effect is spoiled when I look at them - at Tetralani, five feet ten in her stocking feet and weighing a hundred and ninety pounds, and at Barillo, a scant five feet four, greasy-featured, with the chest of a squat, undersized blacksmith, and at the pair of them, attitudinizing, clasping their breasts, flinging their arms in the air like demented creatures in an asylum; and when I am expected to accept all this as the faithful illusion of a love-scene between a slender and beautiful princess and a handsome, romantic, young prince - why, I can't accept it, that's all.

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He was an ill-favoured, undersized, gruff sailor of fifty, coarsely hairy, short-legged, long-armed, resembling an elderly ape.

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All the time, while the tale of happening at Poonga- Poonga had been going on, he had pictured her as the woman he had always known, clad roughly, skirt made out of window-curtain stuff, an undersized man's shirt for a blouse, straw sandals for foot covering, with the Stetson hat and the eternal revolver completing her costume.

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I have got just thirteen whole ones, beside several which are imperfect or undersized; but they will do for the smaller fry; they do not cover up the hook so much.

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I looked round, and saw an undersized man in black on the door- step of a house, which, as well as I could judge, stood next to Mrs.

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Then soldiers appeared--good-looking, undersized men--wearing each a knapsack covered with mangy fur, and a great-coat which had been cut for some larger soldier.

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