About The Word Lilliputian
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Lilliputian
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What's The Definition Of Lilliputian?
[n] a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
[n] a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) [adj] (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" [adj] very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet" [adj] relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population" Synonyms | Synonyms for Lilliputian: bantam | diminutive | fiddling | footling | little | Mickey Mouse | midget | niggling | petite | petty | picayune | piddling | piffling | small | tiny | trivial | unimportant Related Terms | Find terms related to Lilliputian: 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 | Tom Thumb | undersize | undersized | wart | wizened See Also | character | fictional character | fictitious character | small person Lilliputian In Webster's Dictionary \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.''
2. Hence: A person or thing of very small size.
\Lil`li*pu"tian\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants. 2. Hence: Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed. |
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