Definitions for dwarfish

dwarfish dwarf·ish

Spelling: [dwawr-fish]
IPA: /ˈdwɔr fɪʃ/

Dwarfish is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in dwarfish (adfhirsw).

Definitions for dwarfish

adjective

  1. like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.

Origin of dwarfish

First recorded in 1555-65; dwarf + -ish1

Examples for dwarfish

The oak is left behind, and the pine grows stunted and dwarfish.

It was a primrose—a dwarfish thing, but perfect in shape—a baby-wonder.

A fine, dwarfish, curled variety, long cultivated in England.

The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish.

The dress of the dwarfish Jew was not, however, favourable to this expedient.

At the door they found the dwarfish Grasshopper with Black Bess.

It presents us with a cramped, dwarfish, and childish conception of Deity.

A Numidian slave, dwarfish and deformed, was sweeping his master's chamber.

The calf of the leg is not developed in any of these dwarfish people.

These gigantic truths retained in view, would put to shame the littleness of their dwarfish morality.

Word Value for dwarfish
Scrable

18

Words with friends

17

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