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Diminutive
Diminutive Di*min"u*tive, a. [Cf. L. deminutivus, F.
diminutif.]
1. Below the average size; very small; little.
2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
3. Tending to diminish. [R.]
Diminutive of liberty. --Shaftesbury.
Diminutive
Diminutive Di*min"u*tive, n.
1. Something of very small size or value; an insignificant
thing.
Such water flies, diminutives of nature. --Shak.
2. (Gram.) 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.
Note: The word sometimes denotes a derivative verb which
expresses a diminutive or petty form of the action, as
scribble.
Meaning of Diminutive from wikipedia
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