What are the opposite words for great?
Great is a word indicating magnitude and exceptional quality. But, a writer should use antonyms to add variety and depth to their writing. Some antonyms for great are little, small, insignificant, unimportant, bad, mediocre, or poor. Little means small in size or quantity, while small suggests being below average in size or magnitude. Insignificant means lack of importance or influence, and unimportant means lack of significance, value or impact. Bad conveys low quality, terrible, or unfavorable. Mediocre is used to describe average or ordinary quality. And, poor indicates being of low quality or standards. Using these antonyms of great can help writers add variety to their text while also making their writing more nuanced and dynamic.
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- ugly
- short
- painful
- light
- awful
- bad
- small
- poor
- low
- little
- rough
- dangerous
- unsavory
- repulsive
- disgusting
- hideous
- inadequate
- lilliputian
- lousy
- mere
- obnoxious
- odious
- petite
- petty
- seamy
- spare
- abominable
- cursed
- dreadful
- ghastly
- horrible
- lamentable
- miserable
- monstrous
- nasty
- rotten
- sad
- scanty
- slight
- terrible
- tiny
- tragic
- unpleasant
- awful, detestable
- very bad; terrible
- poor quality
- second-rate/second-class
- very large
- damned, doomed for bad ending
- hazardous, troubling
- disgusting, offensive
- rude, impolite
- sickening; repulsive
- horrible, frightening
- horrifying, dreadful; pale
- important, celebrated
- excellent, skillful
- grotesque, horrible
- upsetting, miserable
- small in amount, content
- small in size, amount
- very bad
- reduced; mediocre
- nothing more; absolute
- very small
- insignificant, small
- destitute, shabby
- offensive, repulsive
- hateful, horrible
- physically or mentally agonizing
- trivial, insignificant
- lacking sufficient money
- very disgusting, offensive
- despicable, inferior, bad
- tiny in size, quantity
- thin; sparse
- bad, horrible
- catastrophic, very bad
- unpleasant, disagreeable
- revolting, sickening
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- ugly
-
short
- not long,
- pint-sized,
- pocket-sized,
- runty,
- sawed-off,
- close ground,
- close the ground,
- close to ground,
- close to the ground,
- more abbreviated,
- more pint sized,
- more pint-sized,
- more pocket sized,
- more sawed-off,
- more sawedoff,
- most abbreviated,
- most pint sized,
- most pint-sized,
- most pocket sized,
- most pocket-sized,
- most pocketsized,
- most sawed off,
- most sawed-off,
- most sawedoff,
- pint sized,
- pocket sized,
- pocketsized,
- runtier,
- runtiest,
- sawed off,
- sawedoff,
- squattier,
- squattiest.
- painful
- light
- awful
-
bad
- bottom out,
- the pits,
- unpleasant,
- cruddy,
- not good,
- cruddier,
- cruddiest,
- diddlier,
- diddliest,
- dis satisfactory,
- dis-satisfactory,
- godawful,
- in adequate,
- in correct,
- in-adequate,
- junkier,
- junkiest,
- more downer,
- more garbage,
- most downer,
- most garbage,
- most godawful,
- pitser,
- pitsest,
- sub standard,
- sub-standard,
- un acceptable,
- un satisfactory,
- un-acceptable,
- un-satisfactory.
- small
-
poor
- moneyless,
- niggardly,
- Beggared,
- Fortuneless,
- Commiserable,
- poorer,
- unprosperous,
- in want,
- in need,
- behind eight ball,
- dirt poor,
- down and out,
- empty handed,
- emptyhanded,
- flat broke,
- in complete,
- in disposed,
- in fertile,
- in firm,
- in firmer,
- in firmest,
- in solvent,
- in-complete,
- in-disposed,
- in-fertile,
- in-firmer,
- in-firmest,
- in-solvent,
- more beggared,
- more commiserable,
- more dwarfed,
- more empty handed,
- more emptyhanded,
- more fortuneless,
- more moneyless,
- more pauperized,
- more pinched,
- more subnormal,
- more subpar,
- more suffering,
- more unprosperous,
- most beggared,
- most commiserable,
- most dwarfed,
- most empty handed,
- most empty-handed,
- most emptyhanded,
- most fortuneless,
- most moneyless,
- most niggardly,
- most pauperized,
- most pinched,
- most subpar,
- most unprosperous,
- stone broke,
- sub normal,
- sub-normal,
- subpar,
- truly needy,
- un fruitful,
- un luckier,
- un luckiest,
- un lucky,
- un productive,
- un prosperous,
- un-fruitful,
- un-luckier,
- un-lucky,
- un-productive,
- under privileged,
- under-privileged.
- low
-
little
- junior,
- least,
- mini,
- shrimpy,
- Toyer,
- shortlived,
- in effectual,
- in-effectual,
- more mini,
- more peanut,
- more shriveled,
- more truncated,
- most junior,
- most mini,
- most peanut,
- most shriveled,
- most truncated,
- not big,
- not large,
- self centered,
- selfcentered,
- short lived,
- shrimpier,
- shrimpiest,
- small minded,
- smallminded,
- snubber,
- snubbest,
- toyest,
- un-developed,
- under sized,
- under-sized.
-
rough
- bearish,
- untutored,
- dis courteous,
- dis-courteous,
- ill mannered,
- illmannered,
- in elegant,
- in-elegant,
- more bearish,
- more untutored,
- most bearish,
- most untutored,
- un civil,
- un couth,
- un cultivated,
- un cultured,
- un feeling,
- un gracious,
- un just,
- un juster,
- un justest,
- un mannerly,
- un polished,
- un refined,
- un tutored,
- un-ceremonious,
- un-civil,
- un-couth,
- un-cultivated,
- un-cultured,
- un-gracious,
- un-just,
- un-juster,
- un-justest,
- un-mannerly,
- un-refined,
- un-tutored.
-
dangerous
- dangersome,
- ex posed,
- ex-posed,
- in secure,
- in securer,
- in securest,
- in-secure,
- in-securer,
- in-securest,
- more dangersome,
- more dynamite,
- most dangersome,
- on collision course,
- pre carious,
- pre-carious,
- touch and go,
- un healthier,
- un healthiest,
- un healthy,
- un safe,
- un safer,
- un safest,
- un stable,
- un stabler,
- un stablest,
- un-healthiest,
- un-healthy,
- un-safe,
- un-safer,
- un-safest,
- un-stable,
- un-stabler,
- un-stablest.
- unsavory
- repulsive
- disgusting
- hideous
- inadequate
- lilliputian
- lousy
- mere
- obnoxious
- odious
- petite
-
petty
- nickel-and-dime,
- penny ante,
- scratcher,
- in consequent,
- in essential,
- in-consequent,
- in-essential,
- more nickel and dime,
- more penny ante,
- more pennyante,
- more pettifogging,
- most nickel and dime,
- most nickel-and-dime,
- most penny ante,
- most penny-ante,
- most pennyante,
- most pettifogging,
- narrow minded,
- nickel and dime,
- penny-ante,
- pennyante,
- scratchest,
- sub ordinate,
- sub-ordinate,
- twobit.
- seamy
- spare
- abominable
-
cursed
- cast out,
- heinous,
- infamous,
- unsanctified,
- voodooed,
- foredoomed,
- doggone,
- snakebit,
- be deviled,
- be-deviled,
- blankety blank,
- blankety-blank,
- blanketyblank,
- doggonest,
- ex communicate,
- ex-communicate,
- fore doomed,
- fore-doomed,
- hell fire,
- ill fated,
- illfated,
- in famous,
- in-famous,
- more blankety blank,
- more blankety-blank,
- more blanketyblank,
- more blighted,
- more foredoomed,
- more snakebit,
- more unsanctified,
- more voodooed,
- most bedeviled,
- most blankety blank,
- most blankety-blank,
- most blanketyblank,
- most blighted,
- most excommunicate,
- most foredoomed,
- most snakebit,
- most unsanctified,
- most voodooed,
- star crossed,
- starcrossed,
- un holier,
- un holiest,
- un holy,
- un-holier,
- un-holiest,
- un-holy,
- un-sanctified.
- dreadful
- ghastly
- horrible
- lamentable
- miserable
- monstrous
-
nasty
- objectionable,
- unholy,
- bummest,
- dis agreeable,
- dis-agreeable,
- in decorous,
- in delicate,
- in-decorous,
- in-delicate,
- more polluted,
- most polluted,
- un appetizing,
- un clean,
- un cleaner,
- un cleanest,
- un cleanliest,
- un cleanly,
- un godlier,
- un godliest,
- un godly,
- un kind,
- un kinder,
- un kindest,
- un seemlier,
- un seemliest,
- un seemly,
- un-appetizing,
- un-cleaner,
- un-cleanest,
- un-cleanlier,
- un-cleanliest,
- un-cleanly,
- un-godlier,
- un-godliest,
- un-godly,
- un-kind,
- un-kinder,
- un-kindest,
- un-seemlier,
- un-seemliest,
- x rated,
- xrated.
- rotten
-
sad
- sad,
- tearful,
- heart-rending,
- be reaved,
- be-reaved,
- dis composing,
- dis heartening,
- dis tressed,
- dis-composing,
- dis-heartening,
- dis-tressed,
- down dumps,
- down in dumps,
- down in mouth,
- down mouth,
- grief stricken,
- griefstricken,
- heart rending,
- in doldrums,
- in dumps,
- low spirited,
- lowspirited,
- more bereaved,
- more dejecting,
- more discomposing,
- more disheartening,
- more heart rending,
- more heart-rending,
- most bereaved,
- most dejecting,
- most discomposing,
- most disheartening,
- most heart rending,
- most heart-rending,
- out sorts,
- sick at heart,
- sick heart,
- tearjerking,
- up setting,
- up-setting.
- scanty
- slight
- terrible
-
tiny
- itsy-bitsy,
- itty-bitty,
- minuscular,
- peewee,
- pocket-size,
- bitsy,
- bitsier,
- bitsiest,
- itsy bitsy,
- itsybitsy,
- itty bitty,
- ittybitty,
- more itsy bitsy,
- more itsy-bitsy,
- more itsybitsy,
- more itty bitty,
- more itty-bitty,
- more ittybitty,
- more minuscular,
- more pee wee,
- more pee-wee,
- more peewee,
- more pocket size,
- more pocket-size,
- more pocketsize,
- most itsy bitsy,
- most itsy-bitsy,
- most itsybitsy,
- most itty bitty,
- most itty-bitty,
- most ittybitty,
- most minuscular,
- most pee wee,
- most pee-wee,
- most peewee,
- most pocket size,
- most pocket-size,
- most pocketsize,
- pee wee,
- pee-wee,
- pocket size,
- pocketsize,
- teensy weensy,
- teensyweensy,
- yea big.
- tragic
-
unpleasant
- hard time,
- horrible,
- uncool,
- unlikable,
- hard-time,
- hardtime,
- more hard time,
- more hard-time,
- more hardtime,
- more uncool,
- more unlikable,
- most hard time,
- most hard-time,
- most hardtime,
- most uncool,
- most unlikable,
- un attractive,
- un cool,
- un likable,
- un lovelier,
- un loveliest,
- un lovely,
- un pleasant,
- un-attractive,
- un-cool,
- un-likable,
- un-lovelier,
- un-lovely,
- un-palatable,
- un-pleasant.
- awful, detestable
- very bad; terrible
-
poor quality
- bad.
- second-rate/second-class
- very large
- damned, doomed for bad ending
- hazardous, troubling
- disgusting, offensive
- rude, impolite
- sickening; repulsive
- horrible, frightening
- horrifying, dreadful; pale
- important, celebrated
- excellent, skillful
- grotesque, horrible
- upsetting, miserable
- small in amount, content
- small in size, amount
- very bad
-
reduced; mediocre
- low.
-
nothing more; absolute
- mere.
-
very small
- tiny.
- insignificant, small
- destitute, shabby
- offensive, repulsive
- hateful, horrible
- physically or mentally agonizing
- trivial, insignificant
-
lacking sufficient money
- poor.
- very disgusting, offensive
- despicable, inferior, bad
- tiny in size, quantity
- thin; sparse
- bad, horrible
- catastrophic, very bad
-
unpleasant, disagreeable
- ugly.
- revolting, sickening
-
Other relevant words
- clarified,
- abbreviated,
- abominable,
- abrupt,
- aloof,
- amateur,
- amateurish,
- apathetic,
- artless,
- averse,
- awkward,
- beginning,
- casual,
- clumsy,
- coarse,
- collateral,
- condensed,
- crude,
- dastardly,
- debased,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- degrading,
- detached,
- detestable,
- dirty,
- discreditable,
- disinclined,
- disinterested,
- dwarf,
- ephemeral,
- fleeting,
- green,
- halfhearted,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- hateful,
- heavy-handed,
- hesitant,
- humiliating,
- ignominious,
- illegitimate,
- impassive,
- impermanent,
- incapable,
- incompetent,
- incurious,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inexperienced,
- inexpert,
- insouciant,
- junior,
- knavish,
- lackadaisical,
- languid,
- languorous,
- last,
- least,
- loath,
- low-grade,
- lowercase,
- lukewarm,
- mean,
- mini,
- momentary,
- new,
- nonchalant,
- nonpregnant,
- offensive,
- paltry,
- petite,
- petty,
- pint-size,
- plain,
- primitive,
- raw,
- reluctant,
- repulsive,
- rough,
- rude,
- scanty,
- secondary,
- short-lived,
- short-range,
- short-term,
- shortened,
- shortish,
- small-minded,
- sordid,
- sorry,
- spiritless,
- squalid,
- subordinate,
- subsidiary,
- sudden,
- transient,
- transitory,
- ugly,
- unable,
- unconcerned,
- uneager,
- unenthusiastic,
- unfit,
- uninterested,
- unpolished,
- unprofessional,
- unqualified,
- unschooled,
- unseasoned,
- unskilled,
- unskillful,
- untaught,
- untested,
- untrained,
- untried,
- untutored,
- unwilling,
- vicious,
- weak,
- would-be,
- Ungifted,
- lower class,
- untalented,
- unfitted,
- jackleg,
- little bitty.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
similizing
- Antonyms:
- abandon, differ, disagree.
