Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Reduced; small.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Small; diminished; diminutive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
small ;diminutive
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Examples
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No botox, no fake boobs, no butt implants ... just admitted already. .stop living in ur diminute and stupid world.
X17 Online 2010
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You tokens diminute and lorn -- (not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom -- no grain of August now;)
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
biocon commented on the word diminute
In addition, diminute is a verb meaning to lessen, belittle, diminish (OED).
January 14, 2012