Diminutive vs Colossal - What's the difference?
diminutive | colossal |
Very small.
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Serving to diminish.
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(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
Extremely large or on a great scale.
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As adjectives the difference between diminutive and colossal
is that diminutive is very small while colossal is extremely large or on a great scale.As a noun diminutive
is a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.diminutive
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Alternative forms
*Adjective
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- diminutive of liberty
Synonyms
* (very small) lilliputian, tinyAntonyms
* (very small) huge, gigantic * augmentativeNoun
(wikipedia diminutive) (en noun)- Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’ .
Synonyms
* nomen deminutivumAntonyms
* augmentativeExternal links
* (wikipedia "diminutive")colossal
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Adjective
(en adjective)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.