·adj Tending to diminish.
II. Diminutive ·adj Below the average size; very small; little.
III. Diminutive ·adj Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
IV. Diminutive ·noun Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
V. Diminutive ·noun A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.