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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a garment size for short or slender women;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. very small;
- Example: "diminutive in stature"
- Example: "a lilliputian chest of drawers"
- Example: "her petite figure"
- Example: "tiny feet"
- Example: "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
[syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

petite \pe*tite"\, a. [F., fem. of petit.] Small, little; -- used especially of a woman or girl, of small size and trim figure; as, her petite figure. Syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, tiny. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

petite \pe*tite"\, n. [F., fem. of petit.] 1. A size category of women's clothing, for women with less than average height. [PJC] 2. An aricle of women's clothing classified in the petite[1] size category. [PJC] 3. A girl or woman whose figure is best fit by a petite[1] garment. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

petite adj 1: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck] n 1: a garment size for short or slender women
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "petite": bantam, cramped, dainty, delicate, diminutive, dinky, dwarf, exiguous, half-pint, knee-high, lilliputian, limited, little, miniature, monkey, one-horse, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, puny, short, slight, small, smallish, tiny, two-by-four, wee