a. - Below the average size; very small; little.
a. - Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
a. - Tending to diminish.
n. - Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
n. - 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.