as in diminutive
having a small and thin body
—usually used to describe a woman or girl
She's petite and has short black hair. a petite young woman
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Recent Examples of petite
Best petite spring wedding guest dresses The simplest way to find the perfect party dress as a petite is to buy something specifically conceptualized for your height range.
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Alison Syrett Cleary, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2026
These petite purple flowers are a bright pop of color during late winter months.
—Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
Below, shop more of my top petite denim picks, including trendy bootcut jeans from Levi’s and muted pops of color from Wit & Wisdom.
—Olivia Cigliano, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
This petite card holder is just over six inches long and has four card slots, an exterior slip pocket, and a zippered closure to hold coins or cash.
—Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for petite
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Now the towering ceiling of their new Hollywood soundstage was making even the 36-inch set piece feel diminutive.—
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Andrews left the more creative, diminutive Mikkel Damsgaard on the bench.—
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Go in a smallish group, belly up to the bar to put your name in, then order a strong drink if there's a wait.—
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Hagens slipped down the board, but the B’s jumped at the chance to nab the smallish, but highly-skilled centerman.—
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Designed to run 200 billion parameter models locally, Halo comes with 128GB of unified memory, up to 60 TFLOPS of graphics performance delivered in a mini-PC footprint and will be available in Q2 2026.—
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The mini-flying probe will utilize active shock-absorption technology to safely land on slopes.—
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This frog, with its long fingers and large red eyes, was found perched on tree branches in an elfin forest.—
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Meanwhile, as Hjalmar’s 14-year-old daughter, Hedvig, the elfin Maaike Laanstra-Corn is delivering yet another wonderfully eccentric embodiment of a high-strung tween with a potentially perilous excess of imagination.—
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Satsuma semi-dwarf trees (Citrus unshiu) are ideal for container gardening due to their compact size and high fruit production.—
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Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.—
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Each eye uses a full HD micro-OLED panel with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, supplied by Sony.—
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Directed and written by Scott Cooper based on a book by Warren Zanes, the micro-biopic chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 acoustic album Nebraska.—
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At the previous World Cup in 2022, hosted by tiny Qatar, all of England’s games were in Doha or just outside that city.—
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Nanotubes are ultra-small cylindrical structures, so tiny that thousands could fit across the width of a human hair.—
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The founders argue that automation should be accessible to smaller operators, including neighborhood bars and private event spaces.—
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There can be 30 minutes of small waves before a sneaker wave strikes.—
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“Petite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/petite. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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