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PUNY
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Irregular inflected forms: punier , puniest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used especially of persons) of inferior size
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
little; small (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
puniness (smallness of stature)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Inferior in strength or significance
Example:
puny excuses
Classified under:
Similar:
weak (wanting in physical strength)
Derivation:
puniness (the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous)
Context examples:
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
