lilliputian

Adjective

• (informal) 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
    
  • 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
    

• very small
  • diminutive in stature
    
  • a lilliputian chest of drawers
    
  • her petite figure
    
  • tiny feet
    
  • the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
    

• tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput
  • the Lilliputian population
    

Noun

• a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift

• a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bantam , diminutive , midget , petite , tiny , flyspeck , Lilliputian