Lilliputian meaning

Noun: Lilliputian

Pronunciation: (li-li’pyoo-shun)

Lilliputian meaning:

1. A 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift.
2. A very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)

Adjective: Lilliputian

Lilliputian meaning:

1. Tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput
2. Very small. Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny
3. Small and of little importance. Synonyms: fiddling, footling, little, niggling, petty, piddling, piffling, trivial

Quotations: Jonathan Swift – He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce. His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: “My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. I observe among you some lines of an institution, which, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are ennobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom. As for yourself,” continued the king of Lilliputian kingdom, “who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

Jonathan Swift – The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver’s watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

Sample sentences:

1. That looks like a Lilliputian chest of drawers.
2. All our worries are Lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war.
3. The Lilliputian population of that country will definitely not help them in war.
4. Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail.
5. The laptop which I have purchased recently is Lilliputian in size.
6. I look like a Lilliputian when I stand next to him.
7. Scientists are planning to build Lilliputian robots for military