pygmy
adjective
1. Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people
2. Like a pygmy; unusually short or small for its kind
- Soil exhaustion ultimately produces a pygmy crop at best
noun
1. an unusually small individual
Similar word(s): pigmy
Definition categories: person
2. any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet
Similar word(s): pigmy
Definition categories: person
Sentences with pygmy as a noun:
- The Bantu immigration drove many Pygmy tribes into the darkest jungle, while other Pygmies were reduced to cohabitation in a subservient status
- Despite his towering stature, the minister proved a political pygmy