Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "gnomish" [gnomish]

  • Resembling a gnome; gnomelike (adjective)
  • Aphoristic (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Use "gnomish" in a sentence
  • "Help Alisa and Rudy, a magician and a gnomish builder, rebuild their destroyed world from the ground up!"
  • "Therefore, I can not say with absolute certainly that it was just seeing the revolting little gnomish face of the detestable Russell Hantz back on my TV screen that sent me sprinting to the bathroom for a sudden revisit from my dinner, but I can state without fear of successful contradiction that Russell makes me sick."
  • "At the same time, he varies his drawing styles: In some, Wilson is distinctly gnomish or cartoony; in others, he's thinner and more normal-looking -- even as some chapters are in color, some in black and white, and several in a washed-out monochromatic blue or pink."
Words like "gnomish"
ill-repressed
leather-jacketed
little nerdy
pinched-up
small
super-light
triphasic
unsoldierly
vonduun
wearin'
well-tanned