Lil·li·pu·tian also lil·li·pu·tian (l l  -py  shn)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
| Noun | 1. |  lilliputian - 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" | |
| 3. |  lilliputian - (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"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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