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Meaning of lilliputian

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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" [syn: {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" [syn: {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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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