ELFIN Synonyms

• something considered choice to eat

• delicately beautiful

• especially pleasing to the taste

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

• exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury

• marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique

• easily broken or damaged or destroyed

• easily hurt

• developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety

• difficult to handle; requiring great tact

• of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely

• a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness

• very small

• characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput

• a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift

• a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)

• very small

• (informal) small and of little importance

• limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

• (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some

• low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal

• a small amount or duration

• not much

• (of children and animals) young, immature

• (informal) small and of little importance

• (of a voice) faint

• lowercase

• small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)

• painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)

• a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size

• being on a very small scale

• of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries

• the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

• a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts

• lowercase

• extremely small

• moving quickly and lightly

• mentally quick

• a garment size for short or slender women

• very small

• (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some

• a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

• lacking substance or significance

• being of delicate or slender build

• pay no attention to, disrespect

• limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

• the slender part of the back

• a garment size for a small person

• on a small scale

• relatively moderate, limited, or small

• (of children and animals) young, immature

• slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope

• low or inferior in station or quality

• lowercase

• (of a voice) faint

• have fine or very small constituent particles

• not large but sufficient in size or amount

• made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

• full of spirit and vitality

• very small

• a short time

• (used informally) little or tiny

• very early

• eliminate urine

• small and delicate

• usually good-naturedly mischievous

• slightly insane

• suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness