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.

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.

Specific; discrete; concrete.

I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.

We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.

* Shakespeare

[Make] each particular hair to stand an end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.

I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.

* Francis Bacon

wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth

(obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.

* 1623 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , V.1:

or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.

Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).

My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.

I didn't have any particular interest in the book.

He brought no particular news.

She was the particular belle of the party.

(comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.

He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.

Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.

a full and particular account of an accident

(legal) Containing a part only; limited.

a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder

(legal) Holding a particular estate.

a particular tenant

(Blackstone)

(logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.

a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".