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diminutive
Synonyms and Antonyms of diminutive
- a single diminutive shrub on the edge of the lawn
bantam, dinky, dwarfish, fine, Lilliputian, little, pint-size (or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size (also pocket-sized), puny, pygmy, shrimpy, slight, small, smallish, subnormal, toylike, undersized (also undersize)
runtish, runty, scrubby, stunted
bitty, infinitesimal, micro, microscopic (also microscopical), mini, miniature, miniaturized, minuscule, minute, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee
bulky, hefty, hulking, massive, voluminous
cavernous, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, gross, herculean, heroic (also heroical), huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, mammoth, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast
Synonym Discussion of diminutive
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- a relatively small backyard
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- your pathetic little smile
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- diminutive bonsai plants
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- a minute amount of caffeine in the soda
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- tiny cracks formed in the painting
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- a dollhouse with miniature furnishings
diminutive
Synonyms and Antonyms of diminutive
- dik-diks, the diminutives of the antelope family
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