Definition of diminutive

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Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.

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Dwarf :: Dwarf (n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being..
Agate :: Agate (n.) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
Diminutival :: Diminutival (n.) A diminutive.
Elf :: Elf (n.) An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks..
Barrulet :: Barrulet (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width..
Thing :: Thing (n.) A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.
Diminutive :: Diminutive (n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin..
Diminutive :: Diminutive (a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word..
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..
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..
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..
#NAME? :: -ive () An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive..
Diminutely :: Diminutely (adv.) Diminutively.
Diminutively :: Diminutively (adv.) In a diminutive manner.
Runty :: Runty (a.) Like a runt; diminutive; mean.
Diminutive :: Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.
Diminute :: Diminute (a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.
Diminutiveness :: Diminutiveness (n.) The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
Daddy :: Daddy (n.) Diminutive of Dad.
#NAME? :: -let () A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet..
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