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Found 4 hits - Term: lilliputian, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lilliputian \lil`lipu"tian\, a.
   1. of or pertaining to the imaginary island of lilliput
      described by swift, or to its inhabitants.
      1913 webster

   2. hence: of very small size; diminutive; insignificant;
      dwarfed.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lilliputian \lil`lipu"tian\ li^l`li^p=u"shan, n.
   1. one belonging to a very diminutive race described in
      swift's "voyage to lilliput" or "gulliver's travels".
      1913 webster

   2. hence: a person or thing of very small size.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
bantam diminutive midget petite tiny flyspeck 
fiddling footling little mickey mouse niggling 
piddling piffling petty picayune trivial 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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





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