Definition of Diminutive

Di`min´u`tive
a.1.Below the average size; very small; little.
2.Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
3.Tending to diminish.
Diminutive of liberty.
- Shaftesbury.
n.1.Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
2.(Gram.) 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.


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