Definition of diminutive

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Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.

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Paleola :: Paleola (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.
Diminutive :: Diminutive (a.) Below the average size; very small; little.
Diminutively :: Diminutively (adv.) In a diminutive manner.
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..
Daphne :: Daphne (n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms..
Midget :: Midget (n.) A very diminutive person.
Diminutival :: Diminutival (a.) Indicating diminution; 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..
Diminute :: Diminute (a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.
Couple-close :: Couple-close (n.) A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised..
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..
Barbellulate :: Barbellulate (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
Minikin :: Minikin (a.) Small; diminutive.
Whippersnapper :: Whippersnapper (n.) A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person..
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? :: -let () A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet..
Chicky :: Chicky (n.) A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls..
"""lilliputian " :: Lilliputian (n.) One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's Voyage to Lilliput..
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..
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..
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