<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>In Anthropology: a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa.</li><li>A Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.</li><li>A small or dwarfish person (Disparaging and Offensive).</li><li>Anything very small of its kind.</li><li>A person who is of small importance, or who has some quality, attribute, etc., in very small measure.</li><li>In Classical Mythology (in the Iliad): one of a race of dwarfs who fought battles with cranes, who preyed on them and destroyed their fields.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Often pygmy: of or relating to the Pygmies.</li><li>Pygmy: of very small size, capacity, power, etc.</li></ul>