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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