Puny

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  • adjective. Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak.
  • adjective. Sickly; ill.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A bedbug: same as punice.
  • Later-born; younger; junior. See puisne, 1.
  • Small and weak; inferior or imperfectly developed in size or strength; feeble; petty; insignificant.
  • Synonyms Little, diminutive, stunted, starveling.
  • noun. A young, inexperienced person; a junior; a novice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.
  • noun. A youth; a novice.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
  • noun. A younger person.
  • noun. A beginner, a novice.
  • noun. An inferior person; a subordinate.
  • adjective. Of inferior size, strength or significance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. inferior in strength or significance
  • adjective. (used especially of persons) of inferior size
  • Word Usage
    "I'll have to shoot a deer at Thanksgiving with my 338 from stem to stern to see if I can get the bullet back, and show you guys that the big X bullets are expanding, even in puny deer."
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    a  pun  punny  relating  to  
    Equivalent
    little  small  weak  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Clooney  Cluny  Looney  Mooney  Moonie  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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    variant
    punier  puniest