Diminutive vs Mollie - What's the difference?
diminutive | mollie |
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.
An alternative spelling of Molly, diminutive of the female given name Mary.
* 1955 , The New Yorker (Condé Nast Publications), volume 31, issues 13–25,
As nouns the difference between diminutive and mollie
is that diminutive is (grammar) a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment while mollie is any of many new world fish of the genus poecilia , formerly called.As an adjective diminutive
is very small.diminutive
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Roman Sharonov rose unchallenged to head a corner wide, while diminutive winger Gokdeniz Karadeniz ghosted in with a diving header from the edge of the six-yard box that was acrobatically kept out by Gomes.}}
- 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")mollie
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)page 34
- It was a crack division by then, and probably the chief architect of its excellence, next to Eddy, had been a private named Warner and nicknamed Molotov, which was later shortened to Mollie .