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Diminutive vs Cramped - What's the difference?

diminutive | cramped | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between diminutive and cramped

is that diminutive is very small while cramped is uncomfortably restricted in size, or financially.

As a noun diminutive

is a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

As a verb cramped is

past tense of cramp.

diminutive

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very small.
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  • Serving to diminish.
  • * Shaftesbury
    • diminutive of liberty
  • (grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

    • Synonyms

    * (very small) lilliputian, tiny

    Antonyms

    * (very small) huge, gigantic * augmentative

    Noun

    (wikipedia diminutive) (en noun)
  • (grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
    • Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’ .

    Synonyms

    * nomen deminutivum

    Antonyms

    * augmentative

    External links

    * (wikipedia "diminutive")

    Related terms

    * diminish * dimwit ----

    cramped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cramp)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Uncomfortably restricted in size, or financially.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • Overcrowded or congested.
  • Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
  • Illegible.