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- Shetland ponies are the dwarfs of the horse world
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- Snow White and the seven dwarfs
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- it would be ridiculous to compare the two sculptors—one's a giant of the art world and the other's a dwarf
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- cipher,
- half-pint,
- insect,
- insignificancy,
- lightweight,
- morsel,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- number,
- pip-squeak,
- pygmy
- (also pigmy),
- shrimp,
- snippersnapper,
- twerp,
- whippersnapper,
- zero,
- zilch
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dwarf
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of dwarf (Entry 2 of 3)
- shrubs dwarfed by the lack of water
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dwarf
adjectiveSynonyms & Antonyms of dwarf (Entry 3 of 3)
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- diminutive,
- half-pint,
- pint-size
- (or pint-sized),
- pocket,
- pocket-size
- (also pocket-sized),
- pygmy,
- small,
- smallish
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