Giant vs. Dwarf

A person or thing of great size.

A person with a usually genetic disorder resulting in atypically short stature and often disproportionate limbs.

A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance

An atypically small animal or plant.

Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.

A small creature resembling a human, often having magical powers, appearing in legends and fairy tales.

A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.

A dwarf star.

A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.

To check the natural growth or development of; stunt

Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power

To cause to appear small by comparison

A mythical human of very great size.

To become stunted or grow smaller.

(mythology) Specifically:

(mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.

Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.

A jotun.

An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.

A very tall and large person.

(star) A star of relatively small size.

A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

Miniature.

(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

(transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).

(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

(transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.

A very large organisation.

(transitive) To make appear insignificant.

A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

(intransitive) To become (much) smaller.

(gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

Very large.

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.

A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves.

Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

To become small; to diminish in size.

Any creature of exceptional size

A person who is abnormally small

A person of exceptional importance and reputation

A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

An unusually large enterprise;

Make appear small by comparison;

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Check the growth of;

Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales

A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)

Of great mass; huge and bulky;