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Word Meanings - DIMINUTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Below the average size; very small; little. 2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word. 3. Tending to diminish. Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury.

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  • SPECIFICNESS
    The quality or state of being specific.
  • SLIGHTNESS
    The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
  • EXACTOR
    One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
  • ILLIBERALISM
    Illiberality.
  • EXACTING
    Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • INFERIORLY
    In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
  • SLIGHTEN
    To slight. B. Jonson.
  • SEARCHLESS
    Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
  • SPECIFICALLY
    In a specific manner.
  • ILLIBERALNESS
    The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
  • EXACTLY
    In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SLIGHTINGLY
    In a slighting manner.
  • DWARFLING
    A diminutive dwarf.
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • NOTICE
    1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
  • BRIEFLY
    Concisely; in few words.
  • LITTLENESS
    The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
  • EXACTION
    1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • INEXACTLY
    In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • INEXACT
    Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
  • SEA BRIEF
    See LETTER
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

 

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