puny 音标拼音: [pj'uni]
a . 微小的,弱小的,微不足道的
微小的,弱小的,微不足道的
puny adj 1 :
inferior in strength or significance ; "
a puny physique ";
"
puny excuses "
2 : (
used especially of persons )
of inferior size [
synonym : {
puny },
{
runty }, {
shrimpy }]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
A puny subject strikes at thy great glory . --
Shak .
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1913 Webster ]
Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed . --
Keble .
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1913 Webster ]
Puny \
Pu "
ny \,
n .
A youth ;
a novice . [
R .] --
Fuller .
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1913 Webster ]
154 Moby Thesaurus words for "
puny ":
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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PUNY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of PUNY is slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak How to use puny in a sentence
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