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er nourish nurture promote

adjective

Synonyms & Antonyms (Entry 3 of 3)

as in dwarfish
Synonyms & Near Synonyms

dwarfish
little low low-lying low-slung sawed-off short
compact petite slight
diminutive half-pint pint-size (or pint-sized) pocket pocket-size (also pocket-sized) pygmy small smallish
bantam bitty dinky mini miniature minimized minute puny teeny teeny-weeny tiny undersized (also undersize) wee
dumpy flat scrubby squat squatty stubby stumpy stunted
Antonyms & Near Antonyms

altitudinous high lofty tall towering
elevated lifted raised uplifted upswept
high-rise statuesque
gangling gangly lanky rangy
big bulky hefty hulking large largish outsize (also outsized) oversize (or oversized) sizable (or sizeable) voluminous

easel

noun

ea·sel

ˈē-zəl

Definition

a frame for supporting something (such as an artist's canvas)

Illustration

easel

First Known Use

1596, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology

borrowed from Dutch ezel, literally, "donkey," going back to Middle Dutch esel, going back to Germanic *asil- (whence Old Saxon & Old High German esil "donkey," Old English esol, eosol, Gothic asilus), altered from Latin asinus — more at ass

er nourish nurture promote

adjective

Synonyms & Antonyms (Entry 3 of 3)

as in dwarfish
Synonyms & Near Synonyms

dwarfish
little low low-lying low-slung sawed-off short
compact petite slight
diminutive half-pint pint-size (or pint-sized) pocket pocket-size (also pocket-sized) pygmy small smallish
bantam bitty dinky mini miniature minimized minute puny teeny teeny-weeny tiny undersized (also undersize) wee
dumpy flat scrubby squat squatty stubby stumpy stunted
Antonyms & Near Antonyms

altitudinous high lofty tall towering
elevated lifted raised uplifted upswept
high-rise statuesque
gangling gangly lanky rangy
big bulky hefty hulking large largish outsize (also outsized) oversize (or oversized) sizable (or sizeable) voluminous

easel

noun

ea·sel

ˈē-zəl

Definition

a frame for supporting something (such as an artist's canvas)

Illustration

easel

First Known Use

1596, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology

er nourish nurture promote

adjective

Synonyms & Antonyms (Entry 3 of 3)

as in dwarfish
Synonyms & Near Synonyms

dwarfish
little low low-lying low-slung sawed-off short
compact petite slight
diminutive half-pint pint-size (or pint-sized) pocket pocket-size (also pocket-sized) pygmy small smallish
bantam bitty dinky mini miniature minimized minute puny teeny teeny-weeny tiny undersized (also undersize) wee
dumpy flat scrubby squat squatty stubby stumpy stunted
Antonyms & Near Antonyms

altitudinous high lofty tall towering
elevated lifted raised uplifted upswept
high-rise statuesque
gangling gangly lanky rangy
big bulky hefty hulking large largish outsize (also outsized) oversize (or oversized) sizable (or sizeable) voluminous

easel

noun

ea·sel

ˈē-zəl

Definition

a frame for supporting something (such as an artist's canvas)

Illustration

easel

First Known Use

1596, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology