Definition of Diminutive

  • (a.) Below the average size; very small; little.
  • (a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
  • (a.) Tending to diminish.
  • (n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
  • (n.) 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.

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