Lilliputian
[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
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, stun