Lilliputian \Lil`li*pu"tian\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput
described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.
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2. Hence: Of very small size; diminutive; insignificant;
dwarfed.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lilliputian \Lil`li*pu"tian\ (l[i^]l`l[i^]*p[=u]"shan), n.
1. One belonging to a very diminutive race described in
Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput" or "Gulliver's Travels".
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2. Hence: A person or thing of very small size.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lilliputian
adj 1: tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country
of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population"
2: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of
drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck
nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam,
diminutive, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck]
3: (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling
sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at
war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse
regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited
to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a
police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it
seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling,
little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling,
petty, picayune, trivial]
n 1: a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
2: a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan
Swift
WordNet (r) 2.0
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "Lilliputian":
Tom Thumb, brownie, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elf, elfin,
gnome, homunculus, incipient, manikin, meager, midge, midget,
nanoid, peewee, pip-squeak, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runt,
runty, scraggy, scrubby, shrimp, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken,
squat, stunted, undersize, undersized, wart, wizened
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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