Synonyms for dwarf
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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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 WordNetRate these synonyms: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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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.2 / 5 votes

1. dwarfnoun

   Synonyms:
   pygmy, hop o' my thumb

2. dwarfverb

   Synonyms:
   stunt, hinder from growth

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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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.7 / 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, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dwarf

   Synonyms:
   Little person, see there
   

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How to use dwarf in a sentence?

1. Shakespeare:

   Get lost, you dwarf, you weed, you scrap, you acorn.

2. This Is Spinal Tap:

   David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

3. Andrew Feinstein:

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

4. Ted Williams:

   But there is another class of compact objects called white dwarfs, bigger, the size of the earth. So rather than 10 kilometers in size we are looking at 6,000 kilometers and we’ve just discovered the very first white dwarf pulsar.

5. 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.