Lilliputian (redirected from Lilliputians)

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.

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[After Lilliput, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was diminutive.]

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Lilliputian [ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃɪən]

n

a tiny person or being

adj

1. tiny; very small

2. petty or trivial

[from Lilliput, an imaginary country of tiny inhabitants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]

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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

Thesaurus

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" 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.	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" 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"

Translations

Lilliputian [ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃɪən]

A. ADJ → liliputiense

B. N → liliputiense mf

Lilliputian

adj → winzig, liliputanerhaft

n → Liliputaner(in) m(f)

Lilliputian [ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃɪən] adj & n (liter) → lillipuziano/a

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Lilliputian [ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃɪən] adj & n (liter) → lillipuziano/a