Definition of diminutive

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Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.

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Mousie :: Mousie (n.) Diminutive for Mouse.
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..
Daddy :: Daddy (n.) Diminutive of Dad.
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..
Paleola :: Paleola (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.
Hop-thumb :: Hop-thumb (n.) A very diminutive person.
Nanny :: Nanny (n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name..
Diminutive :: Diminutive (a.) Below the average size; very small; little.
Hypocoristic :: Hypocoristic (a.) Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name..
Diminutely :: Diminutely (adv.) Diminutively.
Denticulation :: Denticulation (n.) A diminutive tooth; a denticle.
Sylphine :: Sylphid (n.) A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.
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..
Exiguous :: Exiguous (a.) Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.
#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..
Diminutival :: Diminutival (n.) A diminutive.
Squamellate :: Squamella (n.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea..
"""lilliputian " :: Lilliputian (n.) One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's Voyage to Lilliput..
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..
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..
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