Definition of diminutive

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Diminutive (a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word..

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Hop-thumb :: Hop-thumb (n.) A very diminutive person.
Barrulet :: Barrulet (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width..
Lacinula :: Lacinula (n.) A diminutive lacinia.
Minikin :: Minikin (a.) Small; diminutive.
#NAME? :: -ock () A suffix used to form diminutives; as, bullock, hillock..
Chicky :: Chicky (n.) A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls..
Elf :: Elf (n.) A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
Pretty :: Pretty (superl.) Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem..
Dwarfling :: Dwarfling (n.) A diminutive dwarf.
Paleola :: Paleola (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.
Diminutival :: Diminutival (a.) Indicating diminution; diminutive.
Whippersnapper :: Whippersnapper (n.) A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person..
Augmentative :: Augmentative (n.) A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive..
Mousie :: Mousie (n.) Diminutive for Mouse.
Midget :: Midget (n.) A very diminutive person.
Diminutiveness :: Diminutiveness (n.) The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
Troll :: Troll (n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch..
Diminutely :: Diminutely (adv.) Diminutively.
Lilliputian :: Lilliputian (a.) Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.
Sylphine :: Sylphid (n.) A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.
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