(1):

(a.) Below the average size; very small; little.

(2):

(a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.

(3):

(a.) Tending to diminish.

(4):

(n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.

(5):

(n.) 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.