Diminutive Definition

diminutive
adjective
  1. very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
noun
  1. a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness

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