Scrubby

ahd-5
  • adjective. Covered with or consisting of scrub or underbrush.
  • adjective. Shrublike or scraggly.
  • adjective. Paltry or shabby.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of inferior breed or stunted growth; stunted; hence, small; shabby; contemptible; mean: as, a scrubby cur; a scrubby tree.
  • Covered with scrub or underwood: as, scrubby land.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Covered with or consisting of scrub.
  • adjective. Inferior in size or quality.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. inferior in size or quality
  • adjective. sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
    • Word Usage
    "Unfortunately, in scrubby far South Texas, we had nothing like a jungle."
    Equivalent
    inferior  wooded  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    chubby  clubby  grubby  hubby  shrubby  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    billowy  brambly  brushy  close-cropped  denser  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Lilliputian  Tom Thumb  abject  abominable  afforestational  
    variant
    scrubbier  scrubbiest  
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