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Definition of Lilliputian in English: Lilliputianadjective ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃ(ə)nˌlɪləˈpjuʃ(ə)n Trivial or very small. 极少的；极小的 America's banks look Lilliputian in comparison with Japan's 美国银行和日本的比起来简直就是小巫见大巫。 Example sentencesExamples - It wasn't a problem that they were fearsomely hot, but the fact that the Lilliputian prawns dotting the dish were supposed to be tiger prawns was an issue.
- Mine was overseasoned and served in a Lilliputian portion.
- Also known as the Mighty Midget and The Bullet (because of his lightning passes), Owen looked like a scrawny man-boy but no-one took advantage of his Lilliputian build.
- Who on earth would be able to fit in that Lilliputian getup?
- When Thomas came in the league, Lilliputian linebackers still carried a stigma, even though it was slowly fading.
- Only the most Lilliputian of political outlooks could consider these kind of pettifogging government measures ‘bold and far-reaching’.
- The experience was something like finding oneself shrunk to Lilliputian proportions and forced to live in a jewel-casket.
- Rather than drag out a seductive melody until it eventually becomes tawdry, the longest song on Be With is a Lilliputian four minutes.
- Back outside, tiny Icelandic ponies were prancing around the ring, their riders holding aloft banners like some form of Lilliputian cavalry charge.
- Ultimately, the only way this Lilliputian economy could grow was via exports.
- While Ernst Janning was in the dock on Broadway, in early April, a different kind of trial was underway in a Lilliputian theater next to a comedy club, about two miles uptown.
- The following morning, breakfast is waiting downstairs on the magnificent Nordlysid - a wooden, two-masted sloop moored next to fishing boats in the Lilliputian harbour.
- Other bargains abound, including minidisc players for £120 and Lilliputian MP3 portables for £200 notes.
- Nonetheless, he was a giant in his times, and we need a few in today's Lilliputian scene.
- A little clay pot of lentils arrived, topped with a Lilliputian quail egg and shavings of black truffles.
- They feel like Gulliver, tied down with the guy-ropes of Lilliputian countries they thought were their friends.
- The invasion of the Congo by these Lilliputian states would have been unthinkable under normal circumstances, with a responsible government and functioning state institutions.
- The sculptor's Lilliputian alter ego was evidently having trouble staying organized.
- But this Lilliputian stream was not the river we sought.
- It was a radical move from a First Minister derided by many as a leader of Lilliputian vision.
Synonyms minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced
noun ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃ(ə)nˌlɪləˈpjuʃ(ə)n A trivial or very small person or thing. 极少的；极小的 Example sentencesExamples - Being a Lilliputian in the world of creative writing research, he wanted to tie down the whole Australian industry and claim it for his own.
- Footling left-wing Lilliputians have failed to contest this shift, occasionally making things worse.
- When they stood next to each other at a media event, Ruiz made Jones look downright Lilliputian.
- The terms of access to the U.S. market are now to be decided in Geneva by Lilliputians of the New World Order.
- Until the contest with Blackburn is resumed, one of Scotland's two Goliaths will be back bossing the Lilliputians around.
- Who wants to be an ungrateful, unprincipled, two-faced, pacifist, Euro-grasping, oil-hungry Lilliputian?
- His disdain for the arrogance, self-importance and belligerence of men of virtue left us with the term Lilliputian, for high-minded people with essentially trivial, self-serving aims.
OriginEarly 18th century: from the imaginary country of Lilliput in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, inhabited by people 6 inches (15 cm) high, + -ian. Rhymesablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution Definition of Lilliputian in US English: Lilliputianadjectiveˌlɪləˈpjuʃ(ə)nˌliləˈpyo͞oSH(ə)n Trivial or very small. 极少的；极小的 America's banks no longer look Lilliputian in comparison with Japan's 美国银行和日本的比起来简直就是小巫见大巫。 Example sentencesExamples - Back outside, tiny Icelandic ponies were prancing around the ring, their riders holding aloft banners like some form of Lilliputian cavalry charge.
- It was a radical move from a First Minister derided by many as a leader of Lilliputian vision.
- But this Lilliputian stream was not the river we sought.
- The experience was something like finding oneself shrunk to Lilliputian proportions and forced to live in a jewel-casket.
- The sculptor's Lilliputian alter ego was evidently having trouble staying organized.
- Only the most Lilliputian of political outlooks could consider these kind of pettifogging government measures ‘bold and far-reaching’.
- Nonetheless, he was a giant in his times, and we need a few in today's Lilliputian scene.
- The invasion of the Congo by these Lilliputian states would have been unthinkable under normal circumstances, with a responsible government and functioning state institutions.
- It wasn't a problem that they were fearsomely hot, but the fact that the Lilliputian prawns dotting the dish were supposed to be tiger prawns was an issue.
- Mine was overseasoned and served in a Lilliputian portion.
- Rather than drag out a seductive melody until it eventually becomes tawdry, the longest song on Be With is a Lilliputian four minutes.
- Also known as the Mighty Midget and The Bullet (because of his lightning passes), Owen looked like a scrawny man-boy but no-one took advantage of his Lilliputian build.
- The following morning, breakfast is waiting downstairs on the magnificent Nordlysid - a wooden, two-masted sloop moored next to fishing boats in the Lilliputian harbour.
- Other bargains abound, including minidisc players for £120 and Lilliputian MP3 portables for £200 notes.
- Who on earth would be able to fit in that Lilliputian getup?
- While Ernst Janning was in the dock on Broadway, in early April, a different kind of trial was underway in a Lilliputian theater next to a comedy club, about two miles uptown.
- Ultimately, the only way this Lilliputian economy could grow was via exports.
- When Thomas came in the league, Lilliputian linebackers still carried a stigma, even though it was slowly fading.
- They feel like Gulliver, tied down with the guy-ropes of Lilliputian countries they thought were their friends.
- A little clay pot of lentils arrived, topped with a Lilliputian quail egg and shavings of black truffles.
Synonyms minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced
nounˌlɪləˈpjuʃ(ə)nˌliləˈpyo͞oSH(ə)n A trivial or very small person or thing. 极少的；极小的 Example sentencesExamples - Until the contest with Blackburn is resumed, one of Scotland's two Goliaths will be back bossing the Lilliputians around.
- Who wants to be an ungrateful, unprincipled, two-faced, pacifist, Euro-grasping, oil-hungry Lilliputian?
- His disdain for the arrogance, self-importance and belligerence of men of virtue left us with the term Lilliputian, for high-minded people with essentially trivial, self-serving aims.
- Being a Lilliputian in the world of creative writing research, he wanted to tie down the whole Australian industry and claim it for his own.
- Footling left-wing Lilliputians have failed to contest this shift, occasionally making things worse.
- When they stood next to each other at a media event, Ruiz made Jones look downright Lilliputian.
- The terms of access to the U.S. market are now to be decided in Geneva by Lilliputians of the New World Order.
OriginEarly 18th century: from the imaginary country of Lilliput in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, inhabited by people 6 inches (15 cm) high, + -ian. |