Dwarf
Dwarf noun - A living thing much smaller than others of its kind.
Elephant
Elephant noun - Something or someone that is unusually large and powerful.
Usage example: by any standard, the new shopping mall will be an elephant and one that is certain to alter the retail landscape
Nearby Word: elephantine
Both words in one sentence
- An elephant kills a dwarf and starts to walk away, but then a bunch of other dwarves rush outside to loot the body, thus provoking the elephant and beginning the cycle anew.
Source: Lets Play / Boatmurdered - In a sadder example, one of the dwarves in The Fifth Elephant hates Cheery, a dwarf who openly admits she's female (most dwarf women don't).
Source: Boomerang Bigot - Detritus in the Discworld book The Fifth Elephant does this after an Uberwaldian dwarf calls Cheery Littlebottom "Ha'ak", a dwarfish insult indicating a race/species traitor, "not really a dwarf".
Source: Never Say That Again
Cite this Source
Elephant and Dwarf. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dwarf/elephant
Dwarf & Elephant. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dwarf/elephant>.
Elephant or Dwarf. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dwarf/elephant.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "dwarf" and "elephant" have occurred on timeline