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US
/ˌɫɪɫəpˈjuʃən/
]
[ UK /lˌɪlɪpjˈuːʃən/ ]
[ UK /lˌɪlɪpjˈuːʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
ADJECTIVE
-
very small
the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
diminutive in stature
her petite figure
tiny feet
a lilliputian chest of drawers -
(informal) small and of little importance
our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
a little (or small) matter
limited to petty enterprises
a fiddling sum of money
piffling efforts
piffling efforts
a footling gesture
a dispute over niggling details
How To Use lilliputian In A Sentence
- They therefore present what he calls a Lilliputian challenge to unguided Darwinism; if he is right, they present it with a Gargantuan challenge as well. Religion and Science
- These innumerable scraps of land were the beginning of egalitarian ownership on a Lilliputian scale.
- 'Lilliputian' applies equally well to any small-minded, petty obsession of the kind that Conservatives strive to rise above, so I'd still consider it a conservative term. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- It is almost as if the author were trying to pair up the most titanic promises of the most overdramatic wonders he could imagine with resolution that were as Lilliputian and underdramatic as he could imagine. MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa)
- But as for my sweet Babbie, her volition is not yet adequate to breaking the pack-threads of the Lilliputians, never to speak of cords of the Philistines. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
- a lilliputian chest of drawers
- How many times the height of a Lilliputian was the body of Gulliver as he lay on the ground? Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide
- Only the most Lilliputian of political outlooks could consider these kind of pettifogging government measures ‘bold and far-reaching’.
- Whether his Charlesbourg (then called Bourg Royal) castle was used as the receptacle of some of his most valuable booty, or whether it was merely a kind of Lilliputian _Parc au Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
- Meanwhile, crowds pack her restaurant, watching lilliputian fishing boats nosing into the breeze, fishermen working over their gear, seagulls white in the sun.