OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 3298

diminutive

/dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
diminuto
Very small.
Mrs. Washington ("Oh, la, call me Martha, Boys") is a diminutive woman with a cheerful rather than happy air, who seems to bustle even when standing still..
Roman Sharonov rose unchallenged to head a corner wide, while diminutive winger Gokdeniz Karadeniz ghosted in with a diving header from the edge of the six-yard box that was acroba…
diminutivo
Serving to diminish.
1711, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 1714 edition republished by Gregg International Publishers, 1968, Volume 3,…
diminutivo
Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.