Lilliputian
/ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃ(ə)n
/adjective
Trivial or very small: America’s banks look Lilliputian in comparison with Japan’s...
- Back outside, tiny Icelandic ponies were prancing around the ring, their riders holding aloft banners like some form of Lilliputian cavalry charge.
- Nonetheless, he was a giant in his times, and we need a few in today's Lilliputian scene.
- It was a radical move from a First Minister derided by many as a leader of Lilliputian vision.
noun
A trivial or very small person or thing.Until the contest with Blackburn is resumed, one of Scotland's two Goliaths will be back bossing the Lilliputians around....
- Footling left-wing Lilliputians have failed to contest this shift, occasionally making things worse.
- The terms of access to the U.S. market are now to be decided in Geneva by Lilliputians of the New World Order.
Origin
Early 18th century: from the imaginary country of Lilliput in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, inhabited by people 6 inches (15 cm) high, + -ian.
Rhymes
- proto-biface
- protobiont
- protobird
- protobranch
- protocanonical
- protocatechuic
- protocell
- protoceratops
- protocercal
- protocerebrum
- proto-chemist
- proto-chemistry
- protochlorophyll
- protochordate
- protocloud
- protocluster
- protocneme
- protococcal
- defectiveness
- defector
- defeminise
- defeminize
- defence
- Defence Force
- defence in depth