Vi fant 6 definisjoner av lilliputian på engelsk.
Noun |
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| Lilliputian - a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift | ||
| lilliputian - a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) | ||
| small person a person of below average size | ||
Adjective |
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| Lilliputian - tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population" | ||
| lilliputian - very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" | ||
| bantam, diminutive, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck | ||
| little, small small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation" | ||
| lilliputian - (informal) 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"; "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" | ||
| fiddling, footling, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial | ||
| unimportant not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant" | ||
| colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | ||