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midget

1 antonym for midget — opposites grouped by meaning.

Noun — Something unusually small, especially compared with what is normal.

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1. noun

Something unusually small, especially compared with what is normal.

dwarf nanus

2. noun

A very short person.

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Formed from midge (chiefly used in the figurative sense of “small thing”, literally “small fly”) and the diminutive suffix -et. Midge itself comes from Old English myċġ (“mosquito”), from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mu-, *mew-; it is cognate with Dutch mug (“mosquito”) and German Mücke (“mid...

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