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Like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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, Volume I, p. 242, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15043/15043-h/15043-h.htm 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.
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Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available.
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3
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
atypically small
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *dwergaz Proto-West Germanic *dwerg Old English dweorg Middle English dwergh English dwarf Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English dwarfish From dwarf + -ish.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
дребен
(dreben)
— being especially small
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Bulgarian:
недоразвит
(nedorazvit)
— being especially small
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Māori:
tauhena
— being especially small
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Māori:
tauwhena
— being especially small
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Polish:
karli
— being especially small
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Polish:
karłowaty
— being especially small
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Portuguese:
anânico (a)
— being especially small
