dwarfish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.57 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.
Example Sentences
- "[…] now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief."
- "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."
- "The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish."
- "Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […]"
- "There were the Rougiers, for instance, an old, ragged, dwarfish couple who plied an extraordinary trade."
- "Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available."
Etymology
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 -isch English -ish English dwarfish From dwarf + -ish.