Lilliputian - Definition

adj 1: tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary
country of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population"
2: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of
drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck
nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam,
diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny,
flyspeck]
3: (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" [syn: fiddling,
footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling,
piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
n 1: a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
2: a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan
Swift