Definition of diminutive

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Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.

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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..
Mousie :: Mousie (n.) Diminutive for Mouse.
Runty :: Runty (a.) Like a runt; diminutive; mean.
Diminute :: Diminute (a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.
Thing :: Thing (n.) A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.
Diminutive :: Diminutive (a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word..
Sylphine :: Sylphid (n.) A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.
Cottise :: Cottise (n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close..
Minikin :: Minikin (a.) Small; diminutive.
Eaglet :: Eaglet (n.) A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle..
Squamellate :: Squamella (n.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea..
Diminutiveness :: Diminutiveness (n.) The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
Barrulet :: Barrulet (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width..
Lilliputian :: Lilliputian (a.) Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.
Lacinula :: Lacinula (n.) A diminutive lacinia.
#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..
#NAME? :: -et () A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet..
Elf :: Elf (n.) A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
Small :: Small (superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river..
#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..
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