lilliputian


Lilliputian (http://definr.com/Lilliputian)

     adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of
            Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population" [syn: Lilliputian]
     2: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of
        drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet" [syn: bantam,
         diminutive, midget, petite, tiny]
     3: (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse
        regulations"; "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" [syn: fiddling, footling,
         little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling,
         petty, picayune, trivial]
     n 1: a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
     2: a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in Swift's Gulliver's
        Travels [syn: Lilliputian]