Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Lilliputian   Listen
adjective
Lilliputian  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants.
2.
Hence: Of very small size; diminutive; insignificant; dwarfed.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Lilliputian" Quotes from Famous Books



... latter stupefies the reasoning faculties, cripples and stifles the emotions, and sows hatred and strife instead of love and tenderness in the human soul. All that is big and beautiful in the world has been created by thinkers and artists, whose vision was far beyond the Lilliputian sphere of Nationalism. Only that which contains the life's pulse of mankind expands and liberates. That is why every attempt to establish a national art, a patriotic literature, a life's philosophy with the seal of the government attached thereto is bound ...
— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 • Various
... have one of those big silver-colored looking-balls on a pedestal to reflect wee views of the garden and lake and sky, with people moving no bigger than dolls. Imagine a reflection of Ethan like a Lilliputian so high!" ...
— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram
... through the door, the elder woman moved about the shop, setting it in order for the night. It was a labor of love to put the dolls to bed, to lock the glass doors safely on the puffy rabbits and woolly dogs and round-eyed cats, to close the drawers on the tea-sets and Lilliputian kitchens, to shut into boxes the tin soldiers that their ...
— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey
... and each nation priding itself upon the antiquity, beauty, and energy of its own tongue, with an avowed contempt for that of its neighbor; yet our emperor, standing upon the advantage he had got by the seizure of their fleet, obliged them to deliver their credentials, and make their speech in the Lilliputian tongue. ...
— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift


Words linked to "Lilliputian" :   footling, Lilliput, piffling, character, small person, petite, niggling, flyspeck, picayune, colloquialism, fictitious character, bantam, tiny, little, fictional character, midget


Copyright © 2024 Diccionario ingles.com