What's the difference between dwarfish and undershapen?
Dwarfish
Definition:
(a.) Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two groups of dwarfish are seen: the first lacks both GH secretion during sleep and the increase of gonadotropins at puberty.
(2) A 47-year-old dwarfish male was referred to our Oral and maxillofacial Surgical Department with the chief complaint of pain and swelling in the right lateral nasal region with the discharge of pus from the right upper premolar area.
(3) Three of the patients were dwarfish, but only one showed an increased growth after the reduction of sucrose in the supplied diet.
(4) Dead fetuses were usually haemorrhagic, dwarfish and friable.
Undershapen
Definition:
(a.) Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish.