Definition of "lilliputian"

lilliputian

/ˌlɪlɪˈpjuʃən/

noun
plural lilliputians
1. A very small person or being.
  Quotations
  I reflected what a Mortification it muſt prove to me to appear as inconſiderable in this Nation as one ſingle Lilliputian would be among us.
  1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 158
2. (genetics) A fruit fly gene that, when mutated, makes cells abnormally small. See AFF2.
adjective
comparative more lilliputian, superlative most lilliputian
1. Very small, diminutive
  Quotations
  —O'er the expanseOf glittering waters glides the snowy sail;—The lilliputian boat by infants mann'd,Steers amid fairy islets, circles roundThe indented shore,—...
  1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, A Thunder Storm, while Travelling, page 129
2. Trivial, petty