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. - ILLIBERALNESS
The state of being illiberal; illiberality. - CONTRACTIBLE
Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot. - 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.