Diminutive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIMINUTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a diminutive word, affix, or name
• a diminutive word or suffix.
• a shortened form of a name, typically used informally
• a charge of the same form as an ordinary but of lesser size or width.
• 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.
• a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness
ADJECTIVE:
• small
• extremely or unusually small
• (of a word, name, or suffix) implying smallness, either actual or imputed to convey affection, scorn, etc. (e.g. teeny, -let, -kins).
• Below the average size; very small; little.
• Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
• Tending to diminish.

Words related to DIMINUTIVE

corselette12 corselettes13 diminutival17 diminutively21 diminutiveness20 diminutives17 frontally15 small7

Words that contain DIMINUTIVE

diminutives17 diminutively21 diminutiveness20 diminutivenesse21 diminutivenesses22

How to use DIMINUTIVE in a sentence

• That the stars appear like so many diminutive points, is owing to their immense and inconceivable distance.
• All seven freighters-and their contents-had been turned into diminutive pieces of whirling space junk.
• In cold and temperate climates the species of this most interesting and important family are comparatively diminutive in size.
• One day a very diminutive man, dressed in brown clothes, with skin of the same color, knocked at the door of the mill and asked for a little fine meal.
• Its diminutive church has been much restored and has little of interest, except some ancient glass that has been left in the windows.
• He was a diminutive fellow, battered and rather the worse for wear.
• There are several varieties, differing chiefly in the size of the nut, from the diminutive ben-nut, to the large or double French sort.
• A light-colored mulatto boy, in dress coat and bearing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them.
• Poor, diminutive in stature, deformed, he had raised himself to military positions usually reserved as a reward for sons of nobles.
• When sitting he might have been taken for a man of average height, and it was only when he rose to his feet that his diminutive stature became apparent.
• The Shoshonees are of a diminutive stature, with thick flat feet and ankles, crooked legs, and are, generally speaking, worse formed than any nation of Indians we have seen.
• Near it was a diminutive corral and a sun-faded tent.
• This is as necessary as it is that the farmer should propagate his domestic animals from the finest of his stock, and not from the diminutive, the weak, and the sickly.
• The family name of one was Ivanoff, but he was always known to the Otriad as Goga, a pet diminutive of George.
• Not to kill and preserve their diminutive corpses in a cabinet, but solely to witness the comedy of their brilliant little lives.
• Opposite this army of wax figures a row of small brass cannon was placed, and at their side lay diminutive bows, and arrows furnished with pins.
• With whites the variation will be diminutive as often as excessive.
• There we found a diminutive old hermit, whose name was Braguibus, born at Glenay.
• Below, of a diminutive size, as if seen from a distant height, is the tomb surrounded by the apostles, St.
• He was a young man, apparently not thirty years of age, of diminutive stature and delicate proportions.
• He filled this diminutive bowl with a little wad of tobacco, which looked like coarse brown hair.
• They afterwards called it Hispaniola, a diminutive of Hispania.
• Human figures usually appear very small, like those on a distant stage, but in spite of their diminutive size they are as clear as though they were close by.
• I am told that, in most languages, the objects of love are spoken of under diminutive epithets.

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