1. diminutive - Noun
2. diminutive - Adjective
3. diminutive - Adjective Satellite
Below the average size; very small; little.
Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
Tending to diminish.
Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter. Vladimir Nabokov
People living and dead, things past and present, all are contributories to that diminutive stream, oneself; a reflection which is essentially consoling, since it associates one with the sum of things and prevents one from living in barren isolation. Alfred Austin
It is too little to call man a little world, except God, man is a diminutive to nothing. Man consists of more pieces, more parts, than the world; than the world doth, nay, than the world is. John Donne
When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy. Hoda Kotb
diminutive in stature Source: Internet
a lilliputian chest of drawers Source: Internet