Below the average size; very small; little.
Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
Tending to diminish. [R.] Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury.
Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing. Such water flies, diminutives of nature. Shak.
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.
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