Antonyms of adj small-scale
2 senses of small-scale
Sense 1
small-scale -- (created or drawn on a small scale; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model")
INDIRECT (VIA small, little) -> large, big -- (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world")
INDIRECT (VIA small, little) -> large, big -- (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world")
Sense 2
minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized -- (limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country")
INDIRECT (VIA limited) -> unlimited, limitless -- (having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"- Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space")
Similarity of adj small-scale
2 senses of small-scale
Sense 1
small-scale -- (created or drawn on a small scale; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model")
=> small (vs. large), little (vs. big) -- (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group")
Sense 2
minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized -- (limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country")
=> limited (vs. unlimited) -- (small in range or scope; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends")