Lilliputian

Lil·li·pu·tian

also lil·li·pu·tian L0169900 (lĭl′ə-pyo͞o′shən)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.]

Lilliputian

(ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃɪən) na tiny person or beingadj1. tiny; very small2. petty or trivial[C18: from Lilliput, an imaginary country of tiny inhabitants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]

Lil•li•pu•tian

(ˌlɪl ɪˈpyu ʃən)

adj. 1. extremely small; tiny. 2. petty. n. 3. an inhabitant of Lilliput. 4. a very small person. [1726]

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, tinylittle, 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, littlecolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechunimportant - not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"

Lilliputian

also lilliputian
adjectiveExtremely small:diminutive, dwarf, midget, miniature, minuscule, minute, pygmy, tiny, wee.Informal: peewee, pintsize, pintsized, teensy-weensy, teensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, weeny.

Translations

lillipuziano