1.
[syn: dinky, dinkey]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. small and insignificant;
- Example: "we stayed in a dinky old hotel"
2. (British informal) pretty and neat;
- Example: "what a dinky little hat"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dinky \dinky\ adj.
1. small and insignificant; shabby or unimpressive; as, he
drove to work in a dinky old Volkswagen; we stayed in a
dinky little hotel. [informal]
[WordNet 1.5]
2. pretty and neat; fashionable or well-dressed; as, what a
dinky little hat. [British informal]
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dinky
adj 1: small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel"
2: (British informal) pretty and neat; "what a dinky little hat"
n 1: a small locomotive [syn: dinky, dinkey]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "dinky":
anal, back-burner, cramped, dispensable, exiguous, half-pint,
immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable,
inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant, knee-high,
lesser, limited, little, minor, minute, neat, negligible,
nonessential, not vital, one-horse, petit, petite, piddling,
pindling, pint-sized, poky, puny, secondary, shipshape, short,
sleek, slick, slight, small, small-fry, small-time, smallish,
smart, snug, spruce, technical, tidy, tight, trig, trim,
two-by-four, unessential, unimpressive, unnoteworthy,
well-cared-for, well-groomed