meaning of diminutive
1. Below the average size; very small; little.
2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
3. Tending to diminish.
4. Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
5. 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.
6. a word that is formed with a suffix such as -let or -kin to indicate smallness
Related Words
diminutive | diminutively | diminutiveness |
