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Lilliputian

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Lil·li·pu·tian also lil·li·pu·tian  (ll-pyshn)
n.
A very small person or being.
adj.
1. Very small; diminutive.
2. Trivial; petty.
[After Lilliput, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was diminutive.]
Lilliputian [lil-lip-pew-shun]
Noun
a tiny person or being
Adjective
tiny; very small [Lilliput, an imaginary country of tiny people in Swift's Gulliver's Travels]
Lilliputian
a diminutive person, about the height of an ink bottle, as from Lilliput in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Cf. Brobdingnagian.
See also: Size
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Lilliputianlilliputian - a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
small person - a person of below average size
2.Lilliputian - a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift
Adj.1.Lilliputian - tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population"
2.lilliputian - very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny
little, small - limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"
3.Lilliputianlilliputian - (informal) 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"; "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"
fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial, petty, little
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
unimportant - not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
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So saying he paused and listened, as if in an ecstasy, to a sound which seemed to me no better than a tiny chirping from an innumerable multitude of lilliputian grasshoppers.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
As for the rest, every bit was made by her own hands--featherstitched pinning blankets, a crocheted jacket and cap, knitted mittens, embroidered bonnets; slim little princess slips of sensible length; underskirts on absurd Lilliputian yokes; silk-embroidered white flannel petticoats; stockings and crocheted boots, seeming to burgeon before her eyes with wriggly pink toes and plump little calves; and last, but not least, many deliciously soft squares of bird's-eye linen.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
Some are such little creatures, that the stairs are of Lilliputian measurement, fitted to their tiny strides.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
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