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Teeny vs Diminutive - What's the difference?

teeny | diminutive |

As adjectives the difference between teeny and diminutive

is that teeny is very small; tiny while diminutive is very small.

As a noun diminutive is

a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

teeny

English

Etymology 1

From

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) Very small; tiny.
    • Synonyms
    * (very small) *: (standard): minuscule, minute, tiny *: (informal): teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, weeny, eeny

    Etymology 2

    . See (teen) grief.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect) fretful; peevish; cross
    • (Webster 1913)

    diminutive

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    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 ----