minuscule
MIN-uh-skyooladjMeaning extremely small
Memory hook MINUS-cule: so small it’s almost a MINUS. The last cookie is shared with eight friends, and Ivy squints at her share: one crumb. It is minuscule.
Split among ten friends, the last cookie became ten minuscule crumbs.
In context The difference in price was minuscule, just two cents, so Grandma bought the pears from the farmer she liked best.
Similar tiny, microscopic, teeny, wee
Opposite huge, enormous, gigantic
From Latin minuscula (littera), “rather small (letter),” from minus (less).