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Lilliputian

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Lil⋅li⋅pu⋅tian

  [lil-i-pyoo-shuhn]
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–adjective
1. extremely small; tiny; diminutive.
2. petty; trivial: Our worries are Lilliputian when compared with those of people whose nations are at war.
–noun
3. an inhabitant of Lilliput.
4. a very small person.
5. a person who is narrow or petty in outlook.
Origin:
1726; Lilliput + -ian
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Lil·li·pu·tian also lil·li·pu·tian   (lĭl'ə-pyōō'shən)   
n.  A very small person or being.
adj.  

  1. Very small; diminutive.

  2. Trivial; petty.


[After Lilliput, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was diminutive.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

Lilliputian 
"diminutive, tiny," lit. "pertaining to Lilliput, the fabulous island whose inhabitants were six inches high, coined by Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" (1726).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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