Thesaurus / diminutive
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With the future of their species at stake, three diminutive astronauts — Brittany, Alph, and Captain Charlie — set off in a treehouse-sized spaceship, hoping to filch every last piece of fruit they can find on PNF-404’s surface.
‘PIKMIN 3 DELUXE’ LOSES SOME OF ITS ORIGINAL CHARMMICHAEL THOMSENOCTOBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POSTHydrogen’s diminutive size lets electrons get closer to the nodes of the lattice, augmenting their interactions with the vibrations.
ROOM-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY ACHIEVED FOR THE FIRST TIMECHARLIE WOODOCTOBER 14, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEIn 2011, scientists found the sculptors — the diminutive males of what was then a new species of Torquigener pufferfish.
PUFFERFISH MAY BE CARVING MYSTERIOUS ‘CROP CIRCLES’ NEAR AUSTRALIAJAKE BUEHLEROCTOBER 13, 2020SCIENCE NEWSSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG DIES AT 87VERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 18, 2020FORTUNEFrom the diminutive Pathfinder rover back in 1997 to the twin sisters Spirit and Opportunity, and the still-roaming Curiosity—the effective older sibling of Perseverance in design and scale.
TAKE OUR VIRTUAL TRIP TO MARS - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDECALEB SCHARFSEPTEMBER 2, 2020NAUTILUSA light-colored mulatto boy, in dress coat and bearing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINA very diminutive man, instructing his young son, told him if he neglected his learning he would never grow tall.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSIts diminutive size and its unpopularity, however, prevent its general culture in this country.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.Yet this diminutive building served the needs of the place from the days of Edward VI.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERIts very diminutive stove stands near to its extremely small door, which is in close proximity to its unusually little window.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNEWORDS RELATED TO DIMINUTIVE
- Lilliputian
- babyish
- bantam
- brief
- cramped
- diminutive
- dinky
- elfin
- embryonic
- fleeting
- hardly any
- hasty
- immature
- imperceptible
- inappreciable
- inconsiderable
- infant
- infinitesimal
- insufficient
- junior
- light
- limited
- meager
- microscopic
- mini
- miniature
- minute
- not big
- not large
- peanut
- petite
- scant
- short
- short-lived
- shrimpy
- shriveled
- skimpy
- slight
- snub
- sparse
- stubby
- stunted
- teeny
- tiny
- toy
- truncated
- undersized
- undeveloped
- wee
- wizened
- young
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