Dwarf

Noun

 * 1) A creature from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having mystical powers and being skilled at crafts such as woodwork and metalworking.   Sometimes pluralized dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
 * 2) A person with short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
 * 3) An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
 * 4)  An underground dwelling nature spirit famed for metalcraft in Heathenry.
 * 5)  A star of relatively small size.

Synonyms

 * (person) midget, pygmy (imprecise)

Antonyms

 * giant
 * ettin

Derived terms

 * dwarf star
 * black dwarf
 * brown dwarf
 * red dwarf
 * white dwarf


 * dwarfess
 * dwarfify
 * dwarfism
 * dwarfish
 * dwarfling
 * dwarfness

Adjective
dwarf


 * 1) miniature

Verb

 * 1)  To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version)
 * 2)  To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny
 * ''The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.
 * 1)  To make appear insignificant
 * Bach dwarfs all other composers.
 * 1)  To become (much) smaller

Synonyms

 * (make much smaller) miniaturize, shrink
 * (become much smaller) shrink

Adjectives for Dwarf
deformed; rickety; stirring.

Verbs for Dwarf
employ—; engage—; harbor—; gift—with; jeer at—; ridicule—; —antics; —busies; —carries off; —chuckles; —climbs; — covers; —dances; —hobbles; —hops; — mimics; —performs; —prances; —struts.

Thesaurus
Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Lilliputian, Mab, Oberon, Titania, Tom Thumb, ace, atom, banshee, bedwarf, belittle, bit, bitsy, brownie, cluricaune, dab, de-emphasize, detract from, diminish, diminutive, dole, dominate, dot, downplay, dram, dribble, driblet, dumpy, dwarfed, dwarfish, elf, elfin, fairy, fairy queen, farthing, fay, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnome, gobbet, goblin, grain, granule, gremlin, groat, hair, handful, hob, homunculus, imp, incipient, iota, jot, kobold, leprechaun, lilliputian, little, little bit, manikin, meager, midge, midget, miniature, minify, minikin, minim, minimize, minimum, minimus, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nanoid, nutshell, 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, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, underplay, undersize, undersized, wart, wee, whit, wizened

Etymology
c. before 900, dwerf:, from  dweorh:, dweorg:, from  (compare Dutch dwerg:, German Zwerg:, Swedish dvärg:), from  'harm' (compare  duwarnai 'he breaks, shatters', Sanskrit dhvárati 'he bends, hurts', dhvarás 'demon'), from *dhu̯er 'to pierce' (compare  dũnis 'prick, stitch', Ancient Greek týrkhē 'fork with two prongs',  դուր:).

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: nan, nano
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: nain
 * Old French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
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 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: abhac
 * Latin:
 * Luxembourgish: Zwak
 * Polish: krasnolud,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: дворф,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: dvärg
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: nan, nano
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
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 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish: باڵابسته‌
 * Macedonian: џуџе, кепец
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, anã
 * Romanian:, prichindel
 * Russian: карлик, лилипут
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
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 * Bulgarian: мъниче
 * Catalan: nan, nano
 * Dutch: dwerg(exemplaar, -versie) etc.
 * Esperanto: nana


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian: карлик
 * Swedish: dvärg


 * Catalan: nan, nano, gnom
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Russian:
 * Swedish: vätte


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: nana
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * Russian: карлик
 * Swedish: dvärg
 * Turkish:


 * : (qazam)
 * : txatxar
 * : patuljak
 * : patuljak
 * : Zwerg, Zwergin (1,2,3)
 * : גַמָּד, נַנָּס
 * : 小びと, ドワーフ (dowāfu)
 * : 난쟁이 (nanjaengi)
 * : (Neddersass'sch, Niedersächsisch) Dwarg ; Ünnereerdsche/Ünnerierdsche (3) /
 * : dverg
 * : dverg


 * : nane
 * : anão
 * : pitic
 * : troich
 * Cyrillic: патуљак, патицврк , кепец , прцољак , прцкавац , човечуљак
 * Roman: patuljak, paticvrk , kepec , prcoljak , prckavac , čovečuljak
 * : trpaslík
 * : pritlikavec
 * : enano
 * : మరుగుజ్జు (marugujju) (1)
 * : మరుగుజ్జు (marugujju) (1)

Adjective

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: dwerg-
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Zwerg-, zwergenhaft
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Macedonian: џуџест


 * Norwegian: dverg-
 * Novial: nanatri
 * Portuguese: nanico
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: pritlikav, pritlikava , pritlikavo
 * Swedish: compounds with dvärg

Verb

 * Dutch: miniaturizeren; in een dwerg veranderen
 * Esperanto: plietigi, malgrandigi


 * Swedish: förminska, krympa, reducera


 * Danish: rage op over; undertrykke
 * Dutch: in het niet doen verzinken
 * Esperanto: plietigi, malgrandigi
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: фрла во сенка


 * Novial: nanifika
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish: förminska, krympa, reducera


 * Dutch: in de schaduw stellen


 * Swedish: förminska, krympa, reducera


 * Dutch: verschrompelen
 * Esperanto:, malgrandiĝi


 * Swedish: krympa