Synonyms of undersized

undersized

adjective

ˌən-dər-ˈsīzd 

variants also undersize

as in diminutive

of a size that is less than average

though a football all-star in high school, he was just a mediocre, undersized player at the college level

Synonyms & Similar Words

• diminutive
• small
• fine
• smallish
• inadequate
• little
• puny
• dinky
• lacking
• slight
• dwarfish
• insufficient
• subnormal
• poor
• pygmy
• shrimpy
• pocket
• half-pint
• minuscule
• toylike
• Lilliputian
• tiny
• pocket-size
• bantam
• pint-sized
• slender
• pocket-sized
• stunted
• pint-size
• scarce
• dwarf
• sparse
• microscopic
• microscopical
• slim
• bitty
• miniature
• skimpy
• teeny
• deficient
• weeny
• scrubby
• toy
• meager
• minim
• micro
• infinitesimal
• stingy
• runty
• mini
• teensy
• miniaturized
• meagre
• wee
• inappreciable
• little bitty
• scanty
• weensy
• spare
• scant
• pinpoint
• teeny-weeny
• niggardly
• teensy-weensy
• wanting
• minute
• runtish
• minikin
• skimp
• capsule
• bite-sized
• bite-size

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• large
• oversized
• oversize
• considerable
• big
• substantial
• bulky
• handsome
• outsized
• sizeable
• great
• sizable
• husky
• massive
• outsize
• voluminous
• enormous
• giant
• huge
• tidy
• gigantic
• grand
• goodly
• vast
• whopping
• tremendous
• gross
• hefty
• gargantuan
• prodigious
• colossal
• monstrous
• mammoth
• immense
• mountainous
• heroic
• jumbo
• cavernous
• abundant
• monolithic
• generous
• humongous
• stupendous
• ample
• staggering
• healthy
• plentiful
• titanic
• overscaled
• liberal
• monumental
• herculean
• appreciable
• largish
• galactic
• boxcar
• cyclopean
• biggish
• copious
• thick
• hulking
• king-sized
• overscale
• bountiful
• wide
• fat
• king-size
• Himalayan
• plenteous
• whacking
• elephantine
• broad
• adequate
• humungous
• Brobdingnagian
• heroical
• sufficient
• leviathan
• infinite
• Bunyanesque
• enough
• pharaonic
• cosmic
• boundless
• immeasurable
• incalculable
• cosmical

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of undersized

Tyler Nickel has made numerous clutch 3-pointers, and the combination of that trio of perimeter weapons with a pair of burly, undersized bigs has made Vandy really dangerous. —The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025

Jokic tends to command the floor against the undersized Warriors. —Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025

This isn’t the same undersized Knicks team that was once vulnerable to physicality. —Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025

And finally, Egyptian leaders hoped to use the war to secure continued financial inflows that will stave off economic crisis at home, where one in seven people suffer from food insecurity and more than one in five children under five are malnourished and undersized. —Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025