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Lilliputian definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population"
2: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck]
3: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial] n
1: a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
2: a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1726 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput 2. ofen not capitalized a. small, miniature <a Lilliputian camera> b. petty II. noun Date: 1726 1. an inhabitant of Lilliput 2. often not capitalized one resembling a Lilliputian; especially an undersized individual

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. a diminutive person or thing. --adj. diminutive. Etymology: Lilliput in Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lilliputian Lil`li*pu"tian (l[i^]l`l[i^]*p[=u]"shan), n. 1. One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's ``Voyage to Lilliput.'' 2. Hence: A person or thing of very small size.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lilliputian Lil`li*pu"tian, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants. 2. Hence: Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.

Moby Thesaurus

Tom Thumb, brownie, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elf, elfin, gnome, homunculus, incipient, manikin, meager, midge, midget, nanoid, peewee, pip-squeak, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runt, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shrimp, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, squat, stunted, undersize, undersized, wart, wizened