HALF-PINT Synonyms: 215 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in small

of a size that is less than average one of those half-pint refrigerators that are designed for small apartments

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noun

ˈhaf-ˌpīnt

as in dwarf

a person of no importance or influence when I called the company to complain, I was shuttled from one half-pint to the next

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To assemble the trifles, use an upside-down half-pint jelly jar as a cookie cutter and cut 20 circles from the baked cake. —

Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2025 When women did drink, their capacity for alcohol was as diminished as their access to public space – women were expected to drink fortified wines or, if need be, a half-pint, according to Clare Herrick, a Professor of Geography and Global Health. —

Sadhbh O'Sullivan, refinery29.com, 12 Oct. 2019 On a recent Tuesday at the Counting House, a Fuller’s pub in the City of London, two half-pints of Lucky Saint yielded a bill of £7 including VAT, with no add-ons, handled with a simple tap of the card. —

Anthony Palazzo, Fortune Europe, 10 May 2024 Ladle into clean wide-mouth half-pint freezer containers, leaving a 1/2-inch headspace. —

Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2024 Leticia Ashley, 38, a member of the Navajo Nation, is accused of drinking a half-pint of Fireball liquor in July 2022 before getting behind the wheel with her four children inside, according to a March 6 news release by the U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico. —

Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024 Test Kitchen Tip This DIY condiment makes seven half-pints. —

Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2023 Milk was 25 cents a qt., coffee cream 23 cents a half-pint. —

Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2023 Cook Time: 45 mins Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Yield: 6 half-pint jars In the South, peach jam is the ideal way to revel in summer's sweet flavors just a little bit longer. —

Rishon Hanners, Southern Living, 30 June 2023

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Sitting in front of local leaders, Trump again wrongly blamed elements of the fire disaster on a lack of water resources coming from the Delta and environmental protections for the delta smelt, a small fish near extinction that has become a symbol of GOP frustration.

— Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2025
Bad decisions — the kind that can be, if not reversed, at least remedied — are an essential part of adolescence: lapses that teach us about our desires, our impulses, our weaknesses, our essential character, and leave us with no greater damage than a throbbing hangover or a small, smudgy tattoo.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025