Antonyms for dwarf
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1. dwarfverb

   Antonyms:
   giant, ettin

   Synonyms:
   midget, pygmy, shrink, miniaturize

2. dwarfnoun

   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.

   Antonyms:
   giant, ettin

   Synonyms:
   miniaturize, shrink, midget, pygmy

3. dwarfverb

   To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny

   The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.

   Antonyms:
   giant, ettin

   Synonyms:
   pygmy, midget, miniaturize, shrink

4. dwarfnoun

   An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.

   Bach dwarfs all other composers.

   Antonyms:
   giant, ettin

   Synonyms:
   miniaturize, shrink, pygmy, midget

5. dwarfnoun

   To become (much) smaller

   Synonyms:
   midget, pygmy, miniaturize, shrink

   Antonyms:
   ettin, giant

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1. dwarf

   Antonyms:
   heighten, elevate, raise

   Synonyms:
   lower, stunt, depress

2. dwarfnoun

   Antonyms:
   giant, monster, hercules

   Synonyms:
   pigmy, imp, abortion, puck

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 5 votes

1. dwarf, midget, nanusnoun

   a person who is markedly small

   Synonyms:
   nanus, midget, gnome

2. gnome, dwarfnoun

   a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

   Synonyms:
   nanus, midget, gnome

3. dwarfverb

   a plant or animal that is atypically small

   Synonyms:
   nanus, midget, gnome

4. shadow, overshadow, dwarfverb

   make appear small by comparison

   "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year"

   Synonyms:
   eclipse, dominate, shade off, overshadow, shade, shadow

5. dwarfverb

   check the growth of

   "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"

   Synonyms:
   overshadow, shadow

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1. dwarfnoun

   Synonyms:
   pygmy, gnome, manikin, dandiprat, lilliputian, elf, midget, runt, tom thumb, pigwidgeon, homunculus, hop-o-my-thumb

2. dwarfverb

   Synonyms:
   stunt, atrophy

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dwarf

   Synonyms:
   Little person, see there
   

How to use dwarf in a sentence?

1. David Bennett:

   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.

2. Hugh Osborn:

   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].

3. Tinggui Wang:

   A white dwarf is a very compact star, as such, close to the star, the gradient of the gravitational field can be very large.

4. Andrew Feinstein:

   I fear that the corruption in this deal might dwarf the arms deal.

5. Alex Filippenko:

   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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