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Puny

//ˈpjuːni//

Synonyms for "puny" (182 found)

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Informal (39)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

mean spare lean slim brittle

Adj, adv, intj, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, name, noun, prep, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(8 words)

weak stingy measly useless two-bit pint-sized pasteboardy weazeny

Adj, adv, det, name, noun, pron, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(9 words)

delicate tacky poky slender picayune skeletal dinky crumbly jerkwater

Adj, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

minute punk frail flimsy skimp

Adj, name, noun, slang(3 words)

petty jerry Mickey Mouse

Adj, verb, slang(3 words)

wasted starved piffling

Noun, slang(2 words)

half-pint small time

General use (143)

Adj, name, noun, verb(5 words)

poor pale slight minor dwarf

Adj, adv, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb(13 words)

narrow lightweight limited vain trifling gimcrack sparing namby-pamby niggling effeminate scrimp meagre peddling

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, noun(20 words)

inferior dainty ascetic spartan trivial insignificant fragile diminutive unworthy inconsequential pygmy skimpy breakable tabetic tinhorn frangible two-by-four starveling knee-high marasmic

Adjective(53 words)

unsound jejune watery insubstantial paltry austere unsubstantial worthless scanty frugal unconsidered miserly decrepit meaningless pathetic gossamery sleazy cadaverous parsimonious scrawny

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Adj, name, noun(3 words)

haggard tiny petite

Adj, adv, det, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, verb(22 words)

feeble infirm impoverished cramped meager attenuated wizened pinched shriveled watered withered stunted piddling emaciated straitened peaked underdeveloped emaciate sissified womanish

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underfed stinted

Adj, adv, verb(1 words)

Noun(6 words)

beginner nonentity subsistence starvation midget knee high

Adj, adv(2 words)

weakly niggardly

namby pamby hollow eyed cheap-jack one horse delicately weak small-beer half pint pint sized

Verb(2 words)

dwarfed emacerated

Name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adjective(2 words)

Noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, name(1 words)

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