lilliputian

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   extremely small, miniature, or petty in scale or importance

   From the tower, the people below looked lilliputian.

2. 2
   noun

   a very small person or figure

   Beside the giant stage prop, the actor appeared to be a lilliputian.

From Lilliput, the island of six-inch-tall people in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, + -ian. The fictional place name became a common adjective for anything exceptionally small or petty.

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