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lilliputian
Noun
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A lilliputian is something or someone that is very small.
He is a lilliputian when he stands next to Joe because Joe is much taller than him.
lilliputian
Adjective
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Something that is lilliputian is very small.
Lilliputian
Noun
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A resident of Lilliput in the book Gulliver's Travels.
The Lilliputians were at war with a neighboring kingdom.
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A very small adult person, such as a midget or a dwarf.
The midgets and dwarfs were billed as Lilliputians on the circus posters.
Lilliputian
Adjective
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Description of something very small.
Even with my eyeglasses, I can't read the Lilliputian print in this book.
This Lilliputian furniture was made for my great-grandmother's doll house.
This spoon is the most Lilliputian piece of tableware I've ever held.
My new apartment is the most Lilliputian place I've ever called home.
lilliputian
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noun
a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
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adjective
(= diminutive, petite, tiny, flyspeck)
very small
diminutive in stature
a lilliputian chest of drawers
her petite figure
tiny feet
the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
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adjective
(= fiddling, footling, little, niggling, piffling, petty, picayune)
(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
Lilliputian
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adjective
tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput
the Lilliputian population
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noun
a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift
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