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Diminutive synonyms

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minuscule
Written in minuscules, lower-case.
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  1. Written in minuscules, lower-case.
  2. Written in minuscule handwriting style.
  3. Very small; tiny; minute
small
Narrow in outlook; petty:
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  1. Narrow in outlook; petty:
  2. Having been belittled; humiliated:
  3. Being below average in quantity or extent:
tiny
Extremely small:
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  1. Extremely small:
  2. Very small; diminutive
mini
Very small; specif., much smaller or much more limited than the usual size, scope, extent, etc.
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  1. Very small; specif., much smaller or much more limited than the usual size, scope, extent, etc.
dwarf
A dwarf star or dwarf galaxy.
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  1. A dwarf star or dwarf galaxy.
  2. Much smaller than the usual one of its kind
  3. An abnormally small person, often having limbs and features atypically proportioned or formed.
lilliputian
Of Lilliput or its people
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  1. Of Lilliput or its people
  2. Alternative form of lilliputian.
  3. Very small; tiny
midget
Miniature; diminutive.
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  1. Miniature; diminutive.
  2. Belonging to a type or class much smaller than what is considered standard:
  3. Very small of its kind; miniature
miniature
Greatly reduced in size or scale.
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  1. Greatly reduced in size or scale.
  2. On or done on a very small scale; diminutive; minute
minute
Characterized by careful scrutiny and close examination:
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  1. Characterized by careful scrutiny and close examination:
  2. A unit of time equal to1 /60 of an hour or 60 seconds. &diamf3; A sidereal minute is1 /60 of a sidereal hour, and a mean solar minute is1 /60 of a mean solar hour.
  3. Not worthy of notice; insignificant:
pygmy
Insignificant
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  1. Insignificant
  2. Unimportant; trivial.
  3. Unusually or atypically small.
tiny
Very small; diminutive
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  1. Very small; diminutive
  2. Extremely small:
wee
Very small; tiny.
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  1. Very small; tiny.
peewee
Designating or of an organized sport or sports league for children
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  1. Designating or of an organized sport or sports league for children
pintsize
Of small dimensions; diminutive.
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  1. Of small dimensions; diminutive.
pintsized
Alternative form of pint-sized.
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  1. Alternative form of pint-sized.
teensy-weensy
(Colloquial, often childish or humorous) Alternative form of teeny-weeny.
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  1. (Colloquial, often childish or humorous) Alternative form of teeny-weeny.
teensy
(Childish, informal) tiny
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  1. (Childish, informal) tiny
teeny
(Informal) Very small; tiny.
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  1. (Informal) Very small; tiny.
  2. Tiny.
teeny-weeny
(Idiomatic, often childish or humorous) Alternative spelling of teeny-weeny.
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  1. (Idiomatic, often childish or humorous) Alternative spelling of teeny-weeny.
  2. (Informal) Very small; tiny: a facetious imitation of child's talk
  3. Tiny.
weeny
Minuscule.
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  1. Minuscule.
  2. (Informal) Small; tiny
  3. Tiny.
Find another word for diminutive. In this page you can discover 24 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for diminutive, like: minuscule, small, tiny, mini, little, minute, small, dwarf, lilliputian, midget and miniature.

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  • musculus, diminutive of mus, mouse, applied to small sea fish and mussels), a term applied in England to two families of Lamellibranch Molluscs - the marine Mytilacea, of which the edible mussel, Mytilus edulis, is the representative; and the fresh-water Unionidae, of which the river mussel, Unio pictorum, and the swan mussel, Anodonta cygnea, are the common British examples.

  • The word is a diminutive from Eibos, and is supposed to mean " little poems."

  • "Stripling," a youth, is apparently a diminutive of "strip," in the sense of a.

  • In_ the very crisis of the Swedish War, the diminutive army of the victorious Chodkiewicz was left unpaid, with the result that the soldiers mutinied, and marched off en masse.

  • ANOA, the native name of the small wild buffalo of Celebes, Bos (Bubalus) depressicornis, which stands but little over a yard at the shoulder, and is the most diminutive of all wild cattle.

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