Synonyms for dwarf
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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

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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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1. Jim Green:

   The New Horizons mission has taken what we thought we knew about Pluto and turned it upside down, the New Horizons mission's why we explore -- to satisfy our innate curiosity and answer deeper questions about how we got here and what lies beyond the next horizon. Related : Spacecraft achieves flyby of Pluto, then calls home September NASA, which is discussing a slew of Pluto discoveries at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences in National Harbor, Md. this week, highlighted the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ as a key finding. Geologists on the New Horizons team combined images of Pluto’s surface to make 3-D maps that indicate two of Pluto’s most distinctive mountains could be ice volcanoes. In its statement September NASA explained that the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ may even have been active in the recent past. The two candidates are large features on the dwarf planet’s surface measuring tens of miles across and several miles high. Related : September NASA releases first Pluto flyby images.

2. 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.

3. Steven Parsons:

   This pulsating white dwarf we discovered is extremely important since we can use the binary motion and the eclipse to independently measure the mass and radius of this white dwarf, which helps us determine what it is made.

4. Shakespeare:

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

5. Alex Filippenko:

   This is the best known case for this interesting category of supernovae that is in between the mass range for the exploding white dwarf and the iron core of a massive star that collapses and then rebounds and leads to an explosion, the so-called core-collapse supernovae, this study significantly increases our understanding of the final stages of stellar evolution.