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Lilliputian 音標拼音: [l ,ɪləpj'uʃən] a. 小人國的,小的
n. 小人,侏儒 小人國的,小的小人,侏儒 Lilliputian adj 1: tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; " the Lilliputian population" 2: very small; " diminutive in stature"; " a lilliputian chest of drawers"; " her petite figure"; " tiny feet"; " the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [ synonym: { bantam}, { diminutive}, { lilliputian}, { midget}, { petite}, { tiny}, { flyspeck}] 3: ( informal) small and of little importance; " 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" [ synonym: { fiddling}, { footling}, { lilliputian}, { little}, { niggling}, { piddling}, { piffling}, { petty}, { picayune}, { trivial}] n 1: a very small person ( resembling a Lilliputian) 2: a 6- inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan SwiftLilliputian \ Lil` li* pu" tian\ ( l[ i^] l` l[ i^]* p[= u]" shan), n. 1. One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift' s " Voyage to Lilliput" or " Gulliver' s Travels". [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence: A person or thing of very small size. [ 1913 Webster]
Lilliputian \ Lil` li* pu" tian\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Of very small size; diminutive; insignificant; dwarfed. [ 1913 Webster] 35 Moby Thesaurus words for " Lilliputian": Tom Thumb, brownie, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elf, elfin, gnome, homunculus, incipient, manikin, meager, midge, midget, nanoid, peewee, pip- squeak, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runt, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shrimp, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, squat, stunted, undersize, undersized, wart, wizened
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