dwarfish

Definition

Like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.

Etymology

From dwarf + -ish.

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."