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- English Word Diminutely Definition Diminutively.
- English Word Diminution Definition The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.
- English Word Diminution Definition The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.
- English Word Diminution Definition Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
- English Word Diminution Definition In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.
- English Word Diminutival Definition Indicating diminution; diminutive.
- English Word Diminutival Definition A diminutive.
- English Word Diminutive Definition Below the average size; very small; little.
- English Word Diminutive Definition Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
- English Word Diminutive Definition Tending to diminish.
- English Word Diminutive Definition Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
- English Word Diminutive Definition 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.
- English Word Diminutively Definition In a diminutive manner.
- English Word Diminutiveness Definition The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
- English Word Dimish Definition See Dimmish.
- English Word Dimission Definition Leave to depart; a dismissing.
- English Word Dimissory Definition Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart.
- English Word Dimit Definition To dismiss, let go, or release.
- English Word Dimity Definition A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.
- English Word Dimly Definition In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.
- English Word Dimmed Definition of Dim
- English Word Dimming Definition of Dim
- English Word Dimmish Definition Alt. of Dimmy
- English Word Dimmy Definition Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes.
- English Word Dimness Definition The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
- English Word Dimness Definition Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.
- English Word Dimorph Definition Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.
- English Word Dimorphic Definition Having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous.
- English Word Dimorphism Definition Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.
- English Word Dimorphism Definition Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.