Lilliputian

[ lil-i-pyoo-shuh n ]

/ ˌlɪl ɪˈpyu ʃən /

extremely small; tiny; diminutive.

petty; trivial: Our worries are Lilliputian when compared with those of people whose nations are at war.

an inhabitant of Lilliput.

a very small person.

a person who is narrow or petty in outlook.

Origin of Lilliputian

First recorded in 1726; Lilliput + -ian

How could he pick the Lilliputian city whose favorite place of worship is the Rocky statue at the foot of an art museum?

Cliff Lee Signs With the Phillies: Get Over It, New York |Buzz Bissinger |December 15, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
This plant so precious has numberless enemies in the Lilliputian world to which I am introducing you.

An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. I (of 4) |William Kirby
It was always one of her Lilliputian ambitions to obtain the reputation of a feeble appetite.

Discipline |Mary Brunton
It was a deer; perfect and beautiful, but cast in a Lilliputian mould.

The Blind Spot |Austin Hall

A company of little ones, therefore, looked like an assemblage of Lilliputian merveilleuses and incroyables.

The Nameless Castle |Maurus Jkai
The little standard, or bush, is simply a diminutive Lilliputian kind of tree—just such as a boy would wish for in his garden.

Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopdia of Sports and Amusements |Various

Lilliputian

/ (ˌlɪlɪˈpjuːʃɪən) /

a tiny person or being

tiny; very small

petty or trivial

C18: from Lilliput, an imaginary country of tiny inhabitants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)