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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lilliputian \Lil'li*pu"tian\ (l[i^]l'l[i^]*p[=u]"shan), noun
1. One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's ''Voyage to Lilliput'' or ''Gulliver's Travels''.
2. Hence: A person or thing of very small size.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lilliputian \Lil'li*pu"tian\, adjective
1. Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.
2. Hence: Of very small size; diminutive; insignificant; dwarfed.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Lilliputian
adjective
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}]
noun
1: a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
2: a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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