smaller

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔː.lə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔ.lɚ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑ.lɚ/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /smoː.lə/
• Hyphenation: small‧er
• Rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)

smaller

1. comparative form of small: more small

   The worse things get, the smaller your focus should be.

   • 1958 May, “Decline in Irish Railway Mileage”, in Railway Magazine, page 295:

     At the partition of Ireland in 1920, the railway mileage of the whole country stood at its maximum figure of 3,442, of which 2,668 miles were in the South, and 754 in the much smaller North.

smaller

1. comparative form of small: more small

• Ramsell, amrells

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• Rhymes: -ɑlər

smaller

1. comparative degree of smal