diminutive
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /dɪˈmɪn.jʊ.tɪv/, /dəˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/
diminutive
- Very small.
- Synonyms: lilliputian, tiny
- Antonyms: huge, gigantic
- (obsolete) Serving to diminish.
- 1711, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 1714 edition republished by Gregg International Publishers, 1968, Volume 3, Miscellany 3, Chapter 2, p. 175,
- They cou’d, perhaps, even embrace POVERTY contentedly, rather than submit to any thing diminutive either of their inward Freedom or national Liberty.
- 1711, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 1714 edition republished by Gregg International Publishers, 1968, Volume 3, Miscellany 3, Chapter 2, p. 175,
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
- Antonyms: augmentative
- French: minuscule
- German: winzig, diminutiv
- Italian: minuscolo
- Portuguese: minúsculo, diminuto
- Russian: кро́хотный
- Spanish: diminuto
- German: verkleinernd
- Italian: diminutivo
- Portuguese: diminutivo, diminuidor
- Russian: уменьши́тельный
- Spanish: diminutivo
- French: diminutif
- German: diminutiv
- Portuguese: diminutivo
- Russian: уменьши́тельный
- Spanish: diminutivo
diminutive (plural diminutives)
- (grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
- Synonyms: nomen deminutivum, pet form
- Antonyms: augmentative
- Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’.
- French: diminutif
- German: Diminutiv, Diminutivum, Verkleinerungsform, Verkleinerungswort, Diminutivbildung, Deminutiv, Deminutivum
- Italian: diminutivo
- Portuguese: diminutivo
- Russian: диминути́в
- Spanish: diminutivo
- diminish
- diminution
- diminutization
- diminutize
- dimwit
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