[syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Midget \Midg"et\, n. [Dim. of midge.]
1. (Zool.) A minute bloodsucking fly. [Local, U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
2. A very diminutive person having normal proportions of the
body parts; compare dwarf.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
midget
adj 1: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest
of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the
flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn:
bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget,
petite, tiny, flyspeck]
n 1: a person who is markedly small [syn: dwarf, midget,
nanus]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "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