Word Meanings - MINIONETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Small; delicate. "His minionette face." Walpole.
Related words: (words related to MINIONETTE)
- SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - MINIONETTE
Small; delicate. "His minionette face." Walpole. - DELICATELY
In a delicate manner. - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - DELICATESSEN
Relishes for the table; dainties; delicacies. "A dealer in delicatessen". G. H. Putnam. - DELICATE
soft and tender; akin to deliciae delight: cf. F. délicat. See 1. Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring. Dives, for his delicate life, to the devil went. Piers Plowman. Haarlem is a very delicate town. Evelyn. 2. Pleasing to the - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - SMALLS
See 3 - SMALLSWORD
A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. - DELICATENESS
The quality of being delicate. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - INDELICATE
Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse; - ABYSMALLY
To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot. - OVERDELICATE
Too delicate. - BAPTISMALLY
In a baptismal manner.