Definition of diminutive

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Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.

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Daphne :: Daphne (n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms..
Eaglet :: Eaglet (n.) A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle..
Barrulet :: Barrulet (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width..
Elf :: Elf (n.) A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
Little :: Little (a.) Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child..
Dwarfling :: Dwarfling (n.) A diminutive dwarf.
Mousie :: Mousie (n.) Diminutive for Mouse.
Dwarf :: Dwarf (n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being..
Chicky :: Chicky (n.) A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls..
#NAME? :: -ock () A suffix used to form diminutives; as, bullock, hillock..
Agate :: Agate (n.) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
#NAME? :: -ish () A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white..
Hop-thumb :: Hop-thumb (n.) A very diminutive person.
Diminutival :: Diminutival (n.) A diminutive.
#NAME? :: -ive () An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive..
#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..
Lilliputian :: Lilliputian (a.) Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.
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..
Paleola :: Paleola (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.
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