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Synonyms for dwarf
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Wiktionary2.0 / 1 vote

  1. dwarfverb

    Synonyms:
    midget, pygmy, shrink, miniaturize

    Antonyms:
    giant, ettin

  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.

    Synonyms:
    miniaturize, shrink, midget, pygmy

    Antonyms:
    giant, ettin

  3. dwarfverb

    To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny

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

    Synonyms:
    pygmy, midget, miniaturize, shrink

    Antonyms:
    giant, ettin

  4. dwarfnoun

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

    Bach dwarfs all other composers.

    Synonyms:
    miniaturize, shrink, pygmy, midget

    Antonyms:
    giant, ettin

  5. dwarfnoun

    To become (much) smaller

    Synonyms:
    midget, pygmy, miniaturize, shrink

    Antonyms:
    ettin, giant

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dwarf

    Synonyms:
    lower, stunt, depress

    Antonyms:
    heighten, elevate, raise

  2. dwarfnoun

    Synonyms:
    pigmy, imp, abortion, puck

    Antonyms:
    giant, monster, hercules

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 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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Dictionary of English Synonymes3.2 / 5 votes

  1. dwarfnoun

    Synonyms:
    pygmy, hop o' my thumb

  2. dwarfverb

    Synonyms:
    stunt, hinder from growth

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dwarfnoun

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

  2. dwarfverb

    Synonyms:
    stunt, atrophy

PPDB, the paraphrase database2.7 / 3 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "dwarf":

    nain, midget, lowbush, nano, woolly-heads, violet, gnome, runt, shorty, pygmy

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD1.0 / 1 vote

  1. dwarf

    Synonyms:
    Little person, see there

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How to use dwarf in a sentence?

  1. Steven Parsons:

    This pulsating white dwarf we discovered is extremely important since we can use the binary motion and the eclipse to independently measure the mass and radius of this white dwarf, which helps us determine what it is made.

  2. Neil Gormley:

    When you add up all the costs and all the benefits, the health benefits of this rule dwarf the costs to the industry. The public gets 9 dollars of health benefits for every what 1 dollar the industry spends.

  3. Andrew Feinstein:

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

  4. Alan Stern:

    We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

  5. Katelyn Allers:

    Since the magnetic field originates deep in the planet, or in this case brown dwarf, the radio data allows us to determine the interior period of rotation, when you have an interior rotation rate and an atmospheric rotation rate, you can compare them to see how fast the wind is blowing.


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