Meanings
- not comparableHaving a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb or a noun.
A pea-sized creature.
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A badly-sized pair of shoes.
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLCAn artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of size
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving the surface treated or coated with sizing
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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