Word Meanings - DIMINUTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Below the average size; very small; little. 2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word. 3. Tending to diminish. Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIMINUTIVE)

• Little
• Small
• tiny
• pigmy
• diminutive
• short
• brief
• scanty
• unimportant
• insignificant
• slight
• weak
• inconsiderable
• trivial
• illiberal
• mean
• petty
• paltry
• dirty
• shabby
• dwarf
• Minute
• Diminutive
• microscopic
• exact
• searching
• specific
• detailed
• minute
• feeble
• narrow
• slender
• fine
• inferior
• Tiny
• Puny
• wee
• small
• little
• Lilliputian

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIMINUTIVE)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to DIMINUTIVE)

• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• EXACTION
  1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.