adj tending to diminish.
2. diminutive ·adj below the average size; very small; little.
3. diminutive ·adj expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
4. diminutive ·noun something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
5. diminutive ·noun 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.