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puny    音标拼音: [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.
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A puny subject strikes at thy great glory. --Shak.
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Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed. --Keble.
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Puny \Pu"ny\, n.
A youth; a novice. [R.] --Fuller.
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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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  • PUNY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of PUNY is slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak How to use puny in a sentence
  • PUNY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    What is the pronunciation of puny? 小的, 弱的, 微不足道的… canijo, enclenque, débil… franzino, insignificante, débil… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! PUNY definition: 1 small; weak; not effective: 2 small; weak; not effective: 3 small and weak, or not… Learn more
  • PUNY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    Puny definition: of less than normal size and strength; weak See examples of PUNY used in a sentence
  • Puny - definition of puny by The Free Dictionary
    Define puny puny synonyms, puny pronunciation, puny translation, English dictionary definition of puny adj pu·ni·er , pu·ni·est 1 Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak: a puny physique; puny excuses
  • puny adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and . . .
    Definition of puny adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
  • PUNY definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
    Feelings are fickle, a surprisingly puny substitute for thinking Also it came with a rather puny dab of sour cream He was a puny little thing By any historical standard this has been a puny recovery with little or no feel-good factor More unusually for a great entrepreneur, the Commodore was neither small nor puny
  • puny - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    A respelling of puisne, [1] from Anglo-Norman puisné (“later, more recent; junior; weakly”) [and other forms] and Middle French puisné (“born after (a specified person); younger, youngest; one who is born after (a specified person)”) (modern French puîné (“cadet (born after a sibling); a cadet (someone born after a sibling)”)), from puis (“after
  • What does puny mean? - Definitions. net
    Puny is an adjective used to describe something that is small or weak in size, quantity, or strength It is often used to imply insignificance or inferiority Etymology: [F put younger, later born, OF puisn; puis afterwards (L post; see Post-) + n born, L natus See Natal, and cf Puisne ] pū′ni, adj (comp Pū′nier; superl
  • Puny - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com
    Are your muscles looking small, weak, and totally inferior? In other words, puny? Sounds like somebody needs to eat more spinach Tiny, shrimpy, wimpy and totally unthreatening That's puny in a nutshell — a very small, totally lame looking nutshell
  • Puny Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
    I wouldn't mess with him—he makes bodybuilders look puny in comparison We laughed at their puny attempt to trick us





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