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Lilliputian 音标拼音: [l,ɪləpj'uʃən] a. 小人国的,小的
n. 小人,侏儒 小人国的,小的小人,侏儒 Lilliputian 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" [synonym: {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" [synonym: {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 Lilliputian \Lil`li*pu"tian\ (l[i^]l`l[i^]*p[=u]"shan), n. 1. One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput" or "Gulliver's Travels". [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: A person or thing of very small size. [1913 Webster] Lilliputian \Lil`li*pu"tian\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Of very small size; diminutive; insignificant; dwarfed. [1913 Webster] 35 Moby Thesaurus words for "Lilliputian":
Tom Thumb, brownie, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elf, elfin, gnome, homunculus, incipient, manikin, meager, midge, midget, nanoid, peewee, pip-squeak, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runt, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shrimp, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, squat, stunted, undersize, undersized, wart, wizened
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