Petite vs Mini - What's the difference?
petite | mini |
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)
Miniature, tiny, small.
A miniskirt.
* 2010 , Donna Freitas, The Possibilities of Sainthood
(dated) A minicomputer.
(head)
(rare)
As adjectives the difference between petite and mini
is that petite is of a woman: fairly short and of slim build while mini is miniature, tiny, small.As a noun mini is
a miniskirt.As a proper noun Mini is
a model of compact car, originally built by BMC in the United Kingdom, and later by BMW.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?
References
* ----mini
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Adjective
(-)Derived terms
:See .Noun
(en noun)- All Normal Catholic Schoolgirls had creative ways of sluttifying our pure-as-the-driven-snow required attire.