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puny 音標拼音: [pj'uni] a. 微小的,弱小的,微不足道的 微小的,弱小的,微不足道的 puny adj 1: inferior in strength or significance; " a puny physique"; " puny excuses" 2: ( used especially of persons) of inferior size [ synonym: { puny}, { runty}, { shrimpy}] Puny \ Pu" ny\, a. [ Compar. { Punier}; superl. { Puniest}.] [ F. pu[^ i] t[' e] younger, later born, OF. puisn[' e]; puis afterwards ( L. post; see { Post-}) n[' e] born, L. natus. See { Natal}, and cf. { Puisne}.] Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty. [ 1913 Webster] A puny subject strikes at thy great glory. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed. -- Keble. [ 1913 Webster]
Puny \ Pu" ny\, n. A youth; a novice. [ R.] -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 154 Moby Thesaurus words for " puny": Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, attenuated, austere, breakable, brittle, cadaverous, cheap- jack, cobwebby, corpselike, cramped, crumbly, dainty, decrepit, delicate, delicately weak, diminutive, dinky, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, effeminate, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, exiguous, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, frugal, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, haggard, half- pint, hollow- eyed, impoverished, inconsequential, inferior, infirm, insignificant, jejune, jerkwater, jerry, jerry- built, knee- high, lean, light, lightweight, limited, little, marantic, marasmic, meager, mean, measly, midget, minor, minute, miserly, namby- pamby, narrow, negligible, niggardly, niggling, nugatory, one- horse, paltry, papery, parsimonious, pasteboardy, peaked, peaky, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, pinched, pindling, pint- sized, poky, poor, punk, pygmy, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, shattery, short, shriveled, sickly, sissified, skeletal, skimp, skimpy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, small, small- beer, small- time, smallish, spare, sparing, starvation, starved, starveling, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, tabetic, tabid, tacky, thin, tinhorn, tiny, trifling, trivial, two- bit, two- by- four, underdeveloped, underfed, undernourished, undersized, unimportant, unnourishing, unnutritious, unsound, unsubstantial, useless, wasted, watered, watery, weak, weakly, weazeny, wispy, withered, wizened, womanish, worthless, wraithlike
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