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- extremely or unusually small极小的, 非常小的：
a diminutive figure dressed in black.
身着黑衣的微小身影。
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- (of a word, name, or suffix) implying smallness, either actual or imputed in token of affection, scorn, etc. (e.g. teeny, -let, -kins)［用于词语、名称、后缀中, 表示“小的（指实际尺寸或用来表示喜爱或嘲笑等”, 如teeny, -let, -kins］。
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- a smaller or shorter thing, in particular更小（或更矮）的物体, 尤指：
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- a diminutive word or suffix小词; 小词缀。
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- a shortened form of a name, typically used informally简称（多用于非正式场合）：
'Nick' is a diminutive of 'Nicholas'.
“尼克”是“尼古拉斯”的简称。
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- Heraldry a charge of the same form as an ordinary but of lesser size or width【纹章】（与普通纹章相比, 尺寸、宽度较小的）纹章。
派生词
diminutively
adverbdiminutiveness
noun词源
late Middle English (as a grammatical term)： from Old French diminutif, -ive, from late Latin diminutivus, from Latin deminut- 'diminished', from the verb deminuere （see DIMINISH）.