Lilliputian

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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