Diminutive vs Petite - What's the difference?
diminutive | petite |
Very small.
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Serving to diminish.
* Shaftesbury
(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.
Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
Of women's clothing: of small size.
Small, little; insignificant; petty.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
As adjectives the difference between diminutive and petite
is that diminutive is very small while petite is .As a noun diminutive
is (grammar) a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.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")petite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?