unbig

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ big.

Adjective

unbig (comparative more unbig, superlative most unbig)

1. (rare) Not big; small.
   • 1958, E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings, 95 Poems, 11th printing, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →ISBN, poem 63:

     precisely as unbig a why as i’m (almost too small for death’s because to find) may,given perfect mercy,live a dream larger than alive any star goes round

   • 1969 spring, Tabb Thornton Farinholt, “Golden Mean Mammas”, in Alumnae Magazine, volume 39, number 3, Sweet Briar College, page 13, column 1:

     Unless I had constant surveillance, with a changing of the guard, I could never succeed in barring our children from the Living Room. I sometimes think it would be nice, but we all live in the Living Room,—an unbig, scrappy family.

   • 1991, Christopher Mann, “A Jingle from Ficdep”, in Fourth Dimension: The Literary Journal of Selwyn House School, volume XVIII, page 74:

     The pluscold time is gone / The around the clock is at the ante meridian; / Cockcrow’s at ten minus three; / The nacreous hills have stagnant water converged on them / The thrush on the pennon; / An unbig crustacean insect on a sharp site of a tree; / Big Brother is watching you from above, amen / Everything’s correct in OCEANIA!

See also

• unsmall