LILLIPUTIAN

fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial

(adjective) (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”

bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck

(adjective) very small; “diminutive in stature”; “a lilliputian chest of drawers”; “her petite figure”; “tiny feet”; “the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy”

Lilliputian

(adjective) tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; “the Lilliputian population”

Lilliputian

(noun) a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift

lilliputian

(noun) a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

From the name of a fictional island called Lilliput in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Noun

lilliputian (plural lilliputians)

A very small person or being.

(genetics) A fruit fly gene that, when mutated, makes cells abnormally small. See AFF2.

Adjective

lilliputian (comparative more lilliputian, superlative most lilliputian)

Very small, diminutive

Trivial, petty

Synonyms

• See also tiny

Antonyms

• Brobdingnagian

Noun

Lilliputian (plural Lilliputians)

Alternative form of lilliputian

Adjective

Lilliputian (comparative more Lilliputian, superlative most Lilliputian)

Alternative form of lilliputian

Source: Wiktionary

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Lil`li*pu"tian, n.

1. One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput."

2. Hence:

Definition: A person or thing of very small size.

Lil`li*pu"tian, a.

1. Of or having to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.

2. Hence:

Definition: Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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