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Diminutive vs Jeri - What's the difference?

diminutive | jeri |

As nouns the difference between diminutive and jeri

is that diminutive is (grammar) a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment while jeri is jery.

As an adjective diminutive

is very small.

diminutive

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very small.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Jamie Lillywhite , title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan , work=BBC Sport 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.}}
  • 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 ----

    jeri

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine and Jerilyn, also used as a formal given name.
  • * 1999 , Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, The Star Trek encyclopedia
    • Teleplay by Kenneth Biller and Jeri Taylor.
  • * 2011 , Chris Kohler, Retro Gaming Hacks (page 258)
    • Jeri Ellsworth invented the C-One, a single board computer that is not an emulator, but a reimplementation of the original C64 hardware.
    English diminutives of female given names