Puny
['pjuːnɪ] or ['pjuni]
Definition
(adj.) (used especially of persons) of inferior size .
(adj.) inferior in strength or significance; 'a puny physique'; 'puny excuses' .
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Definition
(superl.) Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.
(n.) A youth; a novice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Weak, feeble, inferior.[2]. Little, small, petty, diminutive, tiny, dwarf, dwarfish, pygmy, pygmean, stunted, Liliputian.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Petty, undeveloped, undersized, feeble, pigmy, dwarfish, small, inferior, tiny
ANT:Great, developed, fine, robust, vigorous, oversized, colossal, gigantic
Editor: Luke
Definition
adj. (comp. Pū′nier; superl. Pū′niest) small: feeble: petty.
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Examples
- It would have been had I been a Martian, but I had to smile at the puny strands that confined my wrists. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But how puny and harmless they now looked beside this huge and terrific incarnation of hate, of vengeance and of death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- What to her is your puny outer world passion for the vile creature you chose in your other life? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- That tiny slit of a mouth and those puny white teeth! Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Puny and insignificant, you mean. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They were acting in the interest of the public, and did not wish to preserve useless lives, or raise up a puny offspring to wretched sires. Plato. The Republic.
- She spoke of her farther as somewhat delicate and puny, but was sanguine in the hope of her being materially better for change of air. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Breathlessly the tribe watched from their lofty perches as Kerchak, still roaring, charged the relatively puny figure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Then he was gone; and the door was locked outside; and I was lying, fevered and hot, and torn, and sore, and raging in my puny way, upon the floor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So am I, but if we don't put the fear of God into their souls, they will wear us out by these puny attacks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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