Meaning of LILLIPUTIAN
| Pronunciation: | | `lili'pyooshun
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- [n] a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- [n] a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
- [adj] (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"
- [adj] very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"
- [adj] relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population"
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| | Synonyms: | | bantam, diminutive, fiddling, footling, little, Mickey Mouse, midget, niggling, petite, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, small, tiny, trivial, unimportant |
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| | See Also: | | character, fictional character, fictitious character, small person | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Lil`li*pu"tian\ (l[i^]l`l[i^]*p[=u]"shan), n.
1. One belonging to a very diminutive race described in
Swift's ``Voyage to Lilliput.''
2. Hence: A person or thing of very small size.
\Lil`li*pu"tian\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput
described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.
2. Hence: Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Tom Thumb, undersize, undersized, wart, wizened |
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