Definition of diminutive

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Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.

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Sylphine :: Sylphid (n.) A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.
Hop-thumb :: Hop-thumb (n.) A very diminutive person.
Minikin :: Minikin (a.) Small; diminutive.
Diminutival :: Diminutival (n.) A diminutive.
Chicky :: Chicky (n.) A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls..
Runty :: Runty (a.) Like a runt; diminutive; mean.
Diminutiveness :: Diminutiveness (n.) The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
Diminutive :: Diminutive (n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
"""lilliputian " :: Lilliputian (n.) One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's Voyage to Lilliput..
Eaglet :: Eaglet (n.) A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle..
Lacinula :: Lacinula (n.) A diminutive lacinia.
Thing :: Thing (n.) A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.
Nanny :: Nanny (n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name..
#NAME? :: -ing () A suffix formerly used to form diminutives; as, lording, farthing..
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..
Diminutively :: Diminutively (adv.) In a diminutive manner.
Fairy :: Fairy (n.) An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon..
Paleola :: Paleola (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.
#NAME? :: -et () A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet..
Godling :: Godling (n.) A diminutive god.
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