lilliputian

Adjective
  1. Tiny;
    Relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput (synset 303092913)
    "the Lilliputian population"
  2. Very small (synset 301395201)
    "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
    similar to: little, small - limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
    same as: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny
  3. (informal) small and of little importance (synset 301284018)
    "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"
    domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
    similar to: unimportant - not important
    same as: fiddling, footling, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial
Noun
  1. A very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) (synset 110282577)
    is a type of: small person - a person of below average size
  2. A 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift (synset 109624603)
    is an instance of: character, fictional character, fictitious character - an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

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