Diminutal(a.) Indicating or causing diminution.
Diminute(a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.
Diminutely(adv.) Diminutively.
Diminution(n.) The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.
Diminution(n.) The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.
Diminution(n.) Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
Diminution(n.) In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.
Diminutive(a.) Below the average size; very small; little.
Diminutive(a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
Diminutive(a.) Tending to diminish.
Diminutive(n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
Diminutive(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.
Diminutively(adv.) In a diminutive manner.
Diminutiveness(n.) The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
Words within diminutions