lilliputian in English

noun

1

a trivial or very small person or thing.

Until the contest with Blackburn is resumed, one of Scotland's two Goliaths will be back bossing the Lilliputians around.

adjective

1

trivial or very small.

America's banks no longer look Lilliputian in comparison with Japan's

adjective

• fiddling, picayune, little, footling, petty, niggling, piddling, piffling, trivial
• flyspeck, midget, diminutive, petite, bantam, tiny

Use "lilliputian" in a sentence

1. Infringement sick-nurse Aymoro plinthless Ochelata Lilliputian herbosity embryomas lotase Lithopolis Mediapolis

2. Several other little - known worlds are tucked into corners of this Lilliputian state.

3. He on bended knees entreats: " Lilliputian is Chen Quan[Sentencedict], ask grandpa pardon. "

4. In the feudal society of absolutism, derive the Lilliputian of flatter the most easily.

5. A relentless Globo Gym attack led by their Lilliputian leader, White Goodman.

6. In late January a Brobdingnagian battle erupted over a Lilliputian water dweller.

7. Our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war.

8. Yet Lilliputian windmills, water mills, solar panels and biomass furnaces could have a big collective impact.

9. The preacher is involved in a titanic confrontation, in which he is a tiny Lilliputian.

10. These innumerable scraps of land were the beginning of egalitarian ownership on a Lilliputian scale.

11. Antonyms for Astronomic include bantam, bitty, diminutive, infinitesimal, Lilliputian, micro, microminiature, microscopic, microscopical and midget

12. But the Lilliputian price also explains why Fannie Mae might have buy - and - hold types feeling queasy.

13. Our lilliputian world turned out to be anything but the innocent children’s playground that was portrayed onstage.

14. The difference between Whigs and Tories matters about as much to a Brobdingnagian as the distinction between Lilliputian high and low heels matters to Gulliver.

15. Acacias are showy and lushly flowering with Lilliputian flowers, composed of four or five tiny petals and massed stamens forming globular, fluffy, sweetly scented balls, racemes or panicles in winter or spring.

16. The Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, compiled under Perry’s supervision, tells about Japanese officials who could not resist jumping on a Lilliputian locomotive that “could hardly carry a child of six years of age.”