(1):
(a.) Below the average size; very small; little.
(2):
(a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
(3):
(a.) Tending to diminish.
(4):
(n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
(5):
(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.