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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
Swift