Found 2 items, similar to lilliputian.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Lilliputian
Lilliputian
adj 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]
n 1: a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
2: a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan
Swift
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Lilliputian
Lilliputian
\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” or
“Gulliver's Travels”.
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2. Hence: A person or thing of very small size.
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Lilliputian
\Lil`li*pu"tian\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput
described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.
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2. Hence: Of very small size; diminutive; insignificant;
dwarfed.
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