Puny

What do we mean by puny?

Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak. adjective

Sickly; ill. adjective

A bedbug: same as punice. noun

Later-born; younger; junior. See puisne, 1.

Small and weak; inferior or imperfectly developed in size or strength; feeble; petty; insignificant.

Synonyms Little, diminutive, stunted, starveling.

A young, inexperienced person; a junior; a novice. noun

Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty. adjective

A youth; a novice. noun

A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student. noun

A younger person. noun

A beginner, a novice. noun

An inferior person; a subordinate. noun

Of inferior size, strength or significance. adjective

Inferior in strength or significance adjective

(used especially of persons) of inferior size adjective

(Oxford University slang) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.

A younger person.

A beginner, a novice.

An inferior person; a subordinate.

Words that are spelled similarly to puny:
puny.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word puny:
sorrows, woodpecker, woody, cartoon, parker, express, weak, humans, touchdown, wilson, prize, fiction, human, ball, peter, going, novel.

Words that rhyme with puny:
uni, loony, moony, looney, muni, sunni, cuny, spoony, loonie, rooney, gooney, moonie, nguni, cluny, clooney, mooney, cooney, suni, spooney, bruni, krooni, bunni, bruney, munni, afternoon he, avenue ne, balloon he, blue knee, boon he, cartoon he, chugoku ni, cocoon he, cuhney, fortuny, honeymoon he, jeune nee, june he, katuni, kuney, marooney, mccluney, midafternoon he, moon he, noon he, nooney, ou ne, platoon he, que ne, que ni, rangoon he, saloon he, shigekuni, soon he, spoon he, tu ne, tune he, u ne, u ni, vous ne.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective puny:
efforts, man, thing, child, strength, body, creature, men, boy, force, race, children, creatures, arms, arm, hands, things, effort, fellow, infant, figure, frame, mortals, bodies, weapons, baby, humans, whipster, girl, ones, stripling, self, size, attempts, powers, offspring, voice, mind, minds, stature, appearance, lad, weapon, individual, physique, being, weakling, beings, soul, infants, dimensions, mortal, forces, insect, trees, will, growth, legs, figures, attempt, intellect, chest, face, fists, human, affair, son, resources, constitution, limbs, ideas, works, proportions, army, thoughts, kid, fist, selves, might, object, battle, existence, stream, lives, shoulders, muscles, objectors, brain, boundaries, colony, babe.

Words that sound like puny:
puny, puni, puna, puno, buni, pune, pewee, punier, buna, buno, peony, piani, paeony, plenty, penny, pony, pone, pany, pennie, poney, pinny, punny, penney, pani, peni, peny, pawnee, penni, panny, punic, peugeot, piney, piny, pusey, peroni, pliny, poni, pini, pinney, pruno, poona, perine, plone, panni, plani, pruna, perini, penii, pinni, pinnae, piony, pennae, pyin, humi, bruni, bune, buey, bunni, funi, buma, bruney, beaune, piano, piana, putney, poonch, parana, pena, paino, pammy, pana, muni, pano, junie, palmy, penna, panna, peno, perona, cuny, munni, peu, kuni, peugh, oppugn, perina, muny, payna, perino, pami, panay, peano, pannu, peut, panno, perun, cuni, panah, panu, peul.