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(adj) trivial, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, little, footling, fiddling
(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
(adj) tiny, bantam, midget, diminutive, petite, flyspeck
very small
diminutive in stature; a lilliputian chest of drawers; her petite figure; tiny feet; the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy
(adj) Lilliputian
tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput
the Lilliputian population
(noun) Lilliputian
a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift