Meaning Of Diminutive

a.

Below the average size; very small; little.

a.

Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.

a.

Tending to diminish.

n.

Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.

n.

A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.