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midget
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun midget has 1 sense
- midget(n = noun.person) dwarf, nanus - a person who is markedly small; Array has particulars: hypophysial dwarf, levi-lorrain dwarf, pituitary dwarf, hypoplastic dwarf, normal dwarf, primordial dwarf, true dwarf
is a kind of small person
Adjective midget has 1 sense
- midget(s = adj.all) bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, petite, tiny - very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
CIDE DICTIONARY
midget, n. [Dim. of midge.].
- A minute bloodsucking fly. [1913 Webster]
- A very diminutive person having normal proportions of the body parts; compare
dwarf . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
midget, n.
1 an extremely small person or thing.
2 (attrib.) very small.
1 an extremely small person or thing.
2 (attrib.) very small.
Etymology
MIDGE + -ET(1)
THESAURUS
midget
Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, brownie, diminutive, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elf, elfin, gnome, homunculus, incipient, lilliputian, manikin, meager, midge, miniature, minikin, nanoid, peewee, pip-squeak, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runt, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shrimp, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, squat, stunted, teeny, undersize, undersized, wart, wee, wizened
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