Adjective: infinitesimal
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more infinitesimal |
| Superlative | most infinitesimal |
Sample Sentences
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Do you ever get the feeling that you are but an infinitesimal speck, swallowed by the vastness of the universe and beyond?
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"You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus." [1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:]
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Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces. [2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 221:]
Adjectives inflected like infinitesimal
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From New Latin īnfīnītēsimus + -al. Displaced earlier coordinate term fluxion.
Verbs referencing "infinitesimal"
Finnish Adjectives
infinitesimaalinen.