puny English

Meaning puny meaning

What does puny mean?

Definitions in simple English

puny Adjective

— If something is puny, then it's small or tiny.

puny

— adjective inferior in strength or significance a puny physique puny excuses

— adjective (used especially of persons) of inferior size

Synonyms puny synonyms

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weak

frail

feeble

tiny

sickly

small

petty

diminutive

very small

trivial

slight

shrimpy

scrawny

runty

minor

little

asthenic

wispy

weedy

wee

weakly

washy

wan

unhealthy-looking

underfed

underdog

twiggy

thin

strengthless

spare

softy

slimsy

slender

sleazy

skinny

sinewless

short

scrimp

sappy

raw

pygmy

piddling

petit

minute

midget

languorous

languishing

languid

inexperienced

inadequate

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Person Body condition

Weak

• What words describe someone who is weak?
  weak puny weedy impotent

States Big Long

Short, not tall

• What words describe someone who is very short?
  tiny diminutive puny

Grammar Very Degree

To a small degree

• What words indicate a small degree?
  deficient inappreciably inconsequentially insignificantly lacking lightly limited little low merely moderately negligibly piddling possible puny reasonably relatively slightly somewhat sparingly temperately trivial trivially