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DIMINUTIVE, a. Small; little; narrow; contracted; as a diminutive race of men or other animals; a diminutive thought.
DIMINUTIVE, n. In grammar, a word formed from another word, usually an appellative or generic term, to express a little thing of the kind; as, in Latin, lapillus, a little stone, from lapis; cellula, a little cell, from cella, a cell; in French, maisonnette, a little house, from maison, a house; in English, manikin, a little man, from man.
Below the average size; very small; little.
Expressing diminution; as, a
diminutive word.
Tending to diminish.
[R.]
Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury. Something of very small size or value; an insignificant
thing.
Such water flies, diminutives of nature. Shak. A derivative from a noun,
denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted
by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet,
lambkin.
Babyisms and dear diminutives. Tennyson. * The word sometimes denotes a derivative verb which expresses a diminutive or petty form of the action, as scribble. | ||||||||