dwarfish
dwarfish adjective: like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.
Adjective
dwarfish (comparative more dwarfish, superlative most dwarfish)
- Like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.
- […] now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- Besides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered. Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty.1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Section XXIV, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887...
- Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.
- Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available.
dwarfish meaning in Marathi, Telugu, Kannada and Sanskrit
dwarfish in Marathi
- dwarfish
- वामन vāman
dwarfish in Telugu
- dwarfish, little, short
- గిడ్డ giḍḍa
dwarfish in Kannada
- ಕಿರ್ಗು, ಕಿೞ್ಗು
dwarfish in Sanskrit
- dwarfish, small or short in stature
- वामन vāmana
Examples of dwarfish in a sentence
- The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish.1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug:
- Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […]1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
- There were the Rougiers, for instance, an old, ragged, dwarfish couple who plied an extraordinary trade.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […]...
Forms of dwarfish
| comparative | more dwarfish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most dwarfish |
| alternative form | dwarvish |
Origin of dwarfish
From dwarf + -ish.
Words formed from dwarfish
Questions about dwarfish
- What does dwarfish mean?
- Dwarfish means like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.
- What is dwarfish in Marathi?
- Dwarfish in Marathi is वामन (vāman). See Dwarfish meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use dwarfish in a sentence?
- The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish.
- What part of speech is dwarfish?
- Dwarfish is an adjective.
Words near dwarfish in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dwarfish (page history and authors); वामन (Marathi) (page history and authors); గిడ్డ (Telugu) (page history and authors); dwarfish (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वामन (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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