very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population
extremely small compared to the normal size of things (Lilliput, an imaginary country full of very small people in the book Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift)
(informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"