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Meanings of
diminutive
in inglés
ruso
диминутив
portugués
diminutivo
español
diminutivo
catalán
diminutiu
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Word modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning.
dim
augmentative
español
diminutivo
Very small in size.
tiny
petite
midget
bantam
lilliputian
flyspeck
Related terms
little
small
Synonyms
Examples for "
tiny
"
tiny
petite
midget
bantam
lilliputian
Examples for "
tiny
"
1
The basic idea is to break the problem into
tiny
time steps.
2
Speech which is free is selfannihilatiing, whether in
tiny
or great amounts.
3
Here is the second crystal: see how
tiny
:
yet it's all there.
4
Ten times higher than the two
tiny
figures working at floor level.
5
Big car companies don't target
tiny
minorities, they target the mass market.
1
In our opinion,
petite
and plus sizes shouldn't be considered special categories.
2
She inquired perpetually after the health of cette pauvre
petite
Miss Clara.
3
AA: Eve was a tiny,
petite
young woman with a huge heart.
4
The floor length, ivory coloured lace gown showed off Franklin's
petite
figure.
5
Paloma was
petite
and well proportioned, and the gowns were altogether charming.
1
The
midget
said something biting in his peculiarly cracked and brittle voice.
2
That
midget
Barrett pays the customs people off to avoid the duties.
3
Zinka was a Ukrainian
midget
,
a dancer with the Borzoi Dance Company.
4
But excuse me, said the now jovial
midget
as he walked away.
5
Why not just get a
midget
hooker and be done with it?
1
He had intended to clean up this
bantam
in about a minute.
2
His blood was up and he strangely resembled a little
bantam
cockerel.
3
He's a brave little chap, but such a
bantam
one must laugh.
4
Oh, she was a little tripping Tartar of a
bantam
hen then.
5
But I'll soon show you down to the boat, my young
bantam
!
1
He felt himself bound and pricked by a thousand delicate
lilliputian
bonds.
2
This is a pity, as their
lilliputian
self-assertion is most amusing.
3
In the middle of the
lilliputian
ranks the giant smoke-clouds leap like hellish gods.
4
This kite system is like fitting a gigantic sail to a
lilliputian
boat, d'ye see?
5
The
lilliputian
vehicles are ubiquitous in Japan - and they would be here, if Detroit had any sense.
1
Tom looked up and saw a tiny
flyspeck
roaring straight down at the ship.
2
You just happened to be in that
flyspeck
village.
3
But it turned out that the plain-spoken presidential candidate from
flyspeck
Paint Creek, Texas, was all hat and no cattle.
4
Blue Hubbard) from China and the USA that exhibited sooty blotch and
flyspeck
(SBFS) signs on their host substrata.
5
Fungi in the sooty blotch and
flyspeck
(SBFS) complex cause blemishes on apple and pear fruit that result in economic losses for growers.
Usage of
diminutive
in inglés
1
It was the way he said his name, still using the
diminutive
.
2
Despite her
diminutive
size, she gave a good impression of fierce looming.
3
Eberhard lighted the six candles of a chandelier in his
diminutive
room.
4
The HP Veer is a pretty great phone, despite its
diminutive
appearance.
5
Lysandra stiffened at his familiar use of her name in the
diminutive
.
6
The Robin and a few
diminutive
Fly-Catchers are almost the only exceptions.
7
Mrs. Thalassa sought consolation in two packs of
diminutive
and dog-eared cards.
8
Does sheer rumor volume suggest a
diminutive
iPad is all but certain?
9
John raised the
diminutive
perch into the air and regarded it glumly.
10
The reading-desk stands opposite the pulpit, and looks very broad and
diminutive
.
11
He searched in his breast pocket and brought out a
diminutive
pocket-book.
12
With his
diminutive
frame, the boy looks much younger than his age.
13
Ana had played it perfectly, coming across as flighty,
diminutive
,
and weak.
14
Singleton was a
diminutive
,
dwarfish personage; he looked like a precocious child.
15
Róisín is Irish and the
diminutive
of Róis, meaning Rose in English.
16
There's more to the Caribbean island capital than its
diminutive
dimensions insinuate.
Other examples for "diminutive"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
diminutive
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
diminutive size
diminutive stature
diminutive figure
so diminutive
diminutive form
More collocations
Translations for
diminutive
ruso
диминутив
уменьшительная форма
деминутив
portugués
diminutivo
español
diminutivo
catalán
diminutiu
Diminutive
through the time
Diminutive
across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common