What are some opposite words for dwarf?
Antonyms for dwarf
dwɔrfdwarf
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dwarfverb
Synonyms:
midget, pygmy, shrink, miniaturizedwarfnoun
A creature from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having supernatural powers and being skilled in metalworking. Sometimes pluralized dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
Synonyms:
miniaturize, shrink, midget, pygmydwarfverb
To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny
The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.
Synonyms:
pygmy, midget, miniaturize, shrinkdwarfnoun
An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
Bach dwarfs all other composers.
Synonyms:
miniaturize, shrink, pygmy, midgetdwarfnoun
To become (much) smaller
Synonyms:
midget, pygmy, miniaturize, shrink
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Princeton's WordNet
dwarf, midget, nanusnoun
a person who is markedly small
gnome, dwarfnoun
a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
dwarfverb
a plant or animal that is atypically small
shadow, overshadow, dwarfverb
make appear small by comparison
"This year's debt dwarfs that of last year"
Synonyms:
eclipse, dominate, shade off, overshadow, shade, shadowdwarfverb
check the growth of
"the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"
Synonyms:
overshadow, shadow
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
dwarfnoun
Synonyms:
pygmy, gnome, manikin, dandiprat, lilliputian, elf, midget, runt, tom thumb, pigwidgeon, homunculus, hop-o-my-thumbdwarfverb
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
dwarf
Synonyms:
Little person, see there
How to use dwarf in a sentence?
Earth's future may not be so rosy because it is much closer to the Sun, if humankind wanted to move to a moon of Jupiter or Saturn before the Sun fried the Earth during its red supergiant phase, we'd still remain in orbit around the Sun, although we would not be able to rely on heat from the Sun as a white dwarf for very long.
Detecting this system is probably the easy bit, because the star is so small and the brown dwarf relatively large, the transit signal is actually about 10 times larger than that of [a typical exoplanet that turns up in surveys of the night sky].
A white dwarf is a very compact star, as such, close to the star, the gradient of the gravitational field can be very large.
I fear that the corruption in this deal might dwarf the arms deal.
This is the best known case for this interesting category of supernovae that is in between the mass range for the exploding white dwarf and the iron core of a massive star that collapses and then rebounds and leads to an explosion, the so-called core-collapse supernovae, this study significantly increases our understanding of the final stages of stellar evolution.
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