[
US
/ˌɫɪɫəpˈjuʃən/
]
[ UK /lˌɪlɪpjˈuːʃən/ ]
[ UK /lˌɪlɪpjˈuːʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)
ADJECTIVE
-
very small
the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
diminutive in stature
her petite figure
tiny feet
a lilliputian chest of drawers -
(informal) small and of little importance
our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
a little (or small) matter
limited to petty enterprises
a fiddling sum of money
piffling efforts
piffling efforts
a footling gesture
a dispute over niggling details
How To Use lilliputian In A Sentence
- It sounds weird, but Liverpudlian reminds me of "Lilliputian" for some reason. Japanese government internet TV
- The preacher is involved in a titanic confrontation, in which he is a tiny Lilliputian.
- the Lilliputian population
- A young company called Lilliputian Systems has developed handheld chargers for mobile devices. NYT > Home Page
- Another thought experiment (Kirk 1974b) involves a team of micro-Lilliputians who invade Gulliver™s head, disconnect his afferent and efferent nerves, monitor the inputs from his afferent nerves, and send outputs down his efferent nerves to produce behavior indistinguishable from what it would have been originally. Zombies
- In the feudal society of absolutism, derive the Lilliputian of flatter the most easily.
- Thus concerns for these foreign components are merely to prove Musharraf as a patriotic and large hearted Pakistani who could be a part of track II diplomacy but to make Lilliputian Pakistani politicians unmistakable for their so-called Herculean power. Bloggers.Pakistan
- Yet Lilliputian windmills, water mills, solar panels and biomass furnaces could have a big collective impact.
- Though some would debate your right to ears if you keep your iPod volume maxed at an ossicle-wobbling level, an owner of Apple's popular Lilliputian jukebox has filed a lawsuit against the computer maker, claiming the device can cause hearing loss in people who use it. Jobs' Apple Faces Lawsuit Over iPod Volume
- Together, from Pegasus's seven-storey-high bridge, Hawk and his wife watched the Lilliputian drama progress below. LET NOT THE DEEP