Definition of diminutive

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Diminutive (a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word..

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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..
Whippersnapper :: Whippersnapper (n.) A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person..
Daddy :: Daddy (n.) Diminutive of Dad.
Dwarfling :: Dwarfling (n.) A diminutive dwarf.
Diminute :: Diminute (a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.
Squamellate :: Squamella (n.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea..
Kin :: kin () A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin..
Barbellulate :: Barbellulate (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
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..
Diminutively :: Diminutively (adv.) In a diminutive manner.
Sylphine :: Sylphid (n.) A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.
Agate :: Agate (n.) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
Diminutiveness :: Diminutiveness (n.) The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
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..
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..
Nodulous :: Nodulous (a.) Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.
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..
Midget :: Midget (n.) A very diminutive person.
Diminutival :: Diminutival (n.) A diminutive.
#NAME? :: -ock () A suffix used to form diminutives; as, bullock, hillock..
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