DIMINUTIVE
\dɪmˈɪnjuːtˌɪv], \dɪmˈɪnjuːtˌɪv], \d_ɪ_m_ˈɪ_n_j_uː_t_ˌɪ_v]\
Definitions of DIMINUTIVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Below the average size; very small; little.
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Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
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Tending to diminish.
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Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Below the average size; very small; little.
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Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
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Tending to diminish.
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Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Below the average size; little; contracted; narrow.
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A word formed from another to express the sense of littleness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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