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adj. Extremely small in size; tiny. See Synonyms at small.

adj. Grammar Of or being a suffix that indicates smallness or, by semantic extension, qualities such as youth, familiarity, affection, or contempt, as -let in booklet, -kin in lambkin, or -et in nymphet.

n. Grammar A diminutive suffix, word, or name.

n. A very small person or thing.

adj. Very small.

adj. Serving to diminish.

adj. Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

n. A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

adj. Below the average size; very small; little.

adj. Expressing diminution.

adj. Tending to diminish.

n. Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.

n. A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive.

Small; little; narrow; contracted: as, a race of diminutive men; a diminutive house.

Having the power of diminishing or lessening; tending to diminish, decrease, or abridge.

In grammar, expressing something small or little: as, a diminutive word; the diminutive suffixes ‘-kin.’ ‘-let,’ ‘-ling,’ etc. See II., 3.

n. I. Anything very small as to size, importance, value, etc.: as, a dainty diminutive

n. In old medicine, something that dimishes or abates.

n. In grammar, a word formed from another word, usually an appellative or generic term, to express a little thing of the kind: as, in Latin,lapillus, a little stone, from lapis, a stone; cellula, a little cell, from cella, a cell; in French, maisonnette, a little house, from maison, a house; in English, manikin, a little man, from man; rivulet, which a double diminutive, being from Latin rivulus, a diminutive of rivus, a river, with the English diminutive of rivus, a river, with the English diminutive termination -et.

n. a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness

adj. very small

"The diminutive is often used to describe without speaking paragraphs or to take the sting out."

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