Usually means: Very small, tiny, or miniature.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word diminutive:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. diminutive: Merriam-Webster
  2. diminutive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diminutive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diminutive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diminutive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Diminutive, diminutive: Wordnik
  7. diminutive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diminutive: Wiktionary
  9. diminutive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diminutive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diminutive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. diminutive: Dictionary.com
  13. diminutive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. diminutive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Diminutive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Diminutive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. diminutive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. diminutive: Rhymezone
  19. diminutive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. diminutive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. diminutive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. diminutive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. diminutive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. diminutive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. diminutive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Diminutive: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diminutive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diminutive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diminutive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diminutive: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diminutive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Very small.
adjective:  (obsolete) Serving to diminish.
adjective:  (grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
noun:  (grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

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