Word Meanings - DWARF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Note: Dwarf is used adjectively

Additional info about word: DWARF

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Note: Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, dwarf tree; dwarf honeysuckle. Dwarf elder , danewort. -- Dwarf wall , a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence. Gwilt. (more info) dweorh; akin to D. dwerg, MHG. twerc, G. zwerg, Icel. dvergr, Sw. &

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DWARF)

• Diminish
• Lessen
• reduce
• contract
• curtail
• dwarf
• decrease
• subside
• shorten
• abate
• retrench
• Little
• Small
• tiny
• pigmy
• diminutive
• short
• brief
• scanty
• unimportant
• insignificant
• slight
• weak
• inconsiderable
• trivial
• illiberal
• mean
• petty
• paltry
• dirty
• shabby

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DWARF)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon
• Increase
• grow
• expand
• augment
• extend
• enlarge
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to DWARF)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.