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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
puny
adj 1: inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique";
"puny excuses"
2: (used especially of persons) of inferior size [syn: puny,
runty, shrimpy]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Puny \Pu"ny\, a. [Compar. Punier; superl. Puniest.] [F.
pu[^i]t['e] younger, later born, OF. puisn['e]; puis
afterwards (L. post; see Post-) + n['e] born, L. natus. See
Natal, and cf. Puisne.]
Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble;
inferior; petty.
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A puny subject strikes at thy great glory. --Shak.
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Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed. --Keble.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Puny \Pu"ny\, n.
A youth; a novice. [R.] --Fuller.
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Thesaurus Results for puny:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, attenuated, austere, breakable, brittle, cadaverous, cheap-jack, cobwebby, corpselike, cramped, crumbly, dainty, decrepit, delicate, delicately weak, diminutive, dinky, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, effeminate, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, exiguous, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, frugal, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, haggard, half-pint, hollow-eyed, impoverished, inconsequential, inferior, infirm, insignificant, jejune, jerkwater, jerry, jerry-built, knee-high, lean, light, lightweight, limited, little, marantic, marasmic, meager, mean, measly, midget, minor, minute, miserly, namby-pamby, narrow, negligible, niggardly, niggling, nugatory, one-horse, paltry, papery, parsimonious, pasteboardy, peaked, peaky, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, pinched, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, punk, pygmy, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, shattery, short, shriveled, sickly, sissified, skeletal, skimp, skimpy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish, spare, sparing, starvation, starved, starveling, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, tabetic, tabid, tacky, thin, tinhorn, tiny, trifling, trivial, two-bit, two-by-four, underdeveloped, underfed, undernourished, undersized, unimportant, unnourishing, unnutritious, unsound, unsubstantial, useless, wasted, watered, watery, weak, weakly, weazeny, wispy, withered, wizened, womanish, worthless, wraithlike |
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Common Misspellings > |
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