'Dwarf' definitions:
Definition of 'dwarf'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure [syn: gnome, dwarf]
noun
A plant or animal that is atypically small
verb
Make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year" [syn: shadow, overshadow, dwarf]
verb
Check the growth of; "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"
Definition of 'Dwarf'
From: GCIDE
- Dwarf \Dwarf\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dwarfed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dwarfing.] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. --J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dwarf'
From: GCIDE
- Dwarf \Dwarf\, n.; pl. Dwarfs. [OE. dwergh, dwerf, dwarf, AS. dweorg, dweorh; akin to D. dwerg, MHG. twerc, G. zwerg, Icel. dvergr, Sw. & Dan. dverg; of unknown origin.]
- 1. An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Especially: A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget. [PJC]
- Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Folklore) A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves. [PJC]
- Note: Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, a dwarf pear tree; dwarf honeysuckle. [1913 Webster]
- Dwarf elder (Bot.), danewort.
- Dwarf wall (Arch.), a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence. --Gwilt. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dwarf'
From: GCIDE
- Dwarf \Dwarf\, v. i. To become small; to diminish in size. [1913 Webster]
- Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. --Beaconsfield. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dwarf'
From: Easton
- Dwarf a lean or emaciated person (Lev. 21:20).
Synonyms of 'dwarf'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ace,
- Ariel,
- atom,
- banshee,
- bedwarf,
- Befind,
- belittle,
- bit,
- bitsy,
- brownie,
- cluricaune,
- Corrigan,
- dab,
- de-emphasize,
- detract from,
- diminish,
- diminutive,
- dole,
- dominate,
- dot,
- downplay,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- dumpy,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- elf,
- elfin,
- fairy,
- fairy queen,
- farthing,
- fay,
- Finnbeara,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gnome,
- gobbet,
- goblin,
- grain,
- granule,
- gremlin,
- groat,
- hair,
- handful,
- hob,
- homunculus,
- imp,
- incipient,
- iota,
- jot,
- kobold,
- leprechaun,
- Lilliputian,
- lilliputian,
- little,
- little bit,
- Mab,
- manikin,
- meager,
- midge,
- midget,
- miniature,
- minify,
- minikin,
- minim,
- minimize,
- minimum,
- minimus,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- nanoid,
- nutshell,
- Oberon,
- ounce,
- ouphe,
- overshadow,
- particle,
- pebble,
- peewee,
- peri,
- pinch,
- pip-squeak,
- pittance,
- pixie,
- play down,
- point,
- pooka,
- puca,
- pwca,
- pygmy,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- runt,
- runty,
- scraggy,
- scrubby,
- scruple,
- shrimp,
- shriveled,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- sprite,
- squat,
- stunted,
- suppress,
- sylph,
- sylphid,
- thimbleful,
- tiny bit,
- Titania,
- tittle,
- Tom Thumb,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- underplay,
- undersize,
- undersized,
- wart,
- wee,
- whit,
- wizened
Words containing 'Dwarf'
- Dwarfed,
- Dwarfing,
- Dwarfs,
- Dwarf elder,
- Dwarf hemlock,
- Dwarf wall,
- dwarf astilbe,
- dwarf banana,
- dwarf bilberry,
- dwarf blueberry,
- dwarf buckeye,
- dwarf buffalo,
- dwarf chestnut,
- dwarf cornel,
- dwarf daisy,
- dwarf dandelion,
- dwarf elm,
- dwarf hulsea,
- dwarf iris,
- dwarf juniper,
- dwarf lycopod,
- dwarf maple,
- dwarf mulberry,
- dwarf nipplewort,
- dwarf oak,
- dwarf phlox,
- dwarf pipefish,
- dwarf salmon,
- dwarf spurge,
- dwarf sumac,
- dwarf tulip,
- dwarf willow,
- hypophysial dwarf,
- hypoplastic dwarf,
- normal dwarf,
- pituitary dwarf,
- primordial dwarf,
- red dwarf,
- true dwarf,
- white dwarf,
- yellow dwarf,
- american dwarf birch,
- dwarf cape gooseberry,
- dwarf chinkapin oak,
- dwarf chinquapin oak,
- dwarf flowering almond,
- dwarf golden chinkapin,
- dwarf gray willow,
- dwarf grey willow,
- dwarf mountain pine,
- dwarf pocket rat,
- dwarf russian almond,
- dwarf sperm whale,
- newfoundland dwarf birch,
- onion yellow dwarf,
- potato yellow dwarf,
- red dwarf star,
- tasman dwarf pine,
- white dwarf star,
- yellow dwarf of potato,
- dwarf-white trillium,
- levi-lorrain dwarf,
- onion yellow-dwarf virus,
- potato yellow-dwarf virus