Diminutive
Diminutive adjective - Of a size that is less than average.
Infant and diminutive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Infant" instead an adjective "Diminutive".
Nearby Words: diminution, diminutively
Infant
Infant noun - A recently born person.
Diminutive and infant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Diminutive" instead an adjective "Infant".
Both words in one sentence
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In PvP, Skull the Troll's diminutive cousin Sheky passes himself off as an abandoned infant (with a note to Skull to take care of him) so he can pickpocket the entire crew.
Source: Doorstop Baby -
The only part of the operation that could really qualify as a scam is the bit where he dresses up a diminutive colleague as his infant son, which seems to only be necessary due to speciesist shopkeepers who won't sell to a fox.
Source: Badbutt -
It is revealed about halfway in that Bean, a diminutive but fiercely intelligent kid, has been genetically altered at birth to have an almost infinite capacity for learning, because his brain continues to grow like an infant's.
Source: My Skull Runneth Over
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