- Extremely or unusually small - Very small - Below the average size; very small; little. - Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word. - Tending to diminish. - Something of very small size or value; an insignificant
thing. - A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young
object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as,
gosling, eaglet, lambkin.