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Lilliputian collapse: a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift; a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian); tiny; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Lilliput; "the Lilliputian population"

elfin collapse: small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"; suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown; usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks"; relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf; "elfin bells"; "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"

abstemious collapse: sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy; marked by temperance in indulgence; "abstemious with the use of adverbs"; "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper"

incipient collapse: only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"

parsimonious collapse: excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"

scrawny collapse: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

scraggy collapse: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

starvation collapse: the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"; a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period

stingy collapse: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

pygmy collapse: any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet; an unusually small individual

subsistence collapse: minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence"; the state of existing in reality; having substance; a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"

rudimentary collapse: being in the earliest stages of development; "rudimentary plans"

shriveled collapse: reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

dwarf collapse: a person who is markedly small; check the growth of; "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"

austere collapse: of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"; severely simple; "a stark interior"

meager collapse: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

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