Puny

Adjective

 * 1) Of inferior size, strength or significance.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:scrawny

Adverbs for Puny
feebly; miserably; whiningly; undoubtedly; obviously; manifestly; evidently; admittedly; unfortunately; wretchedly; pitifully; deplorably; incomparably; lamentably; shamefully; incurably; incredibly; strangely; unaccountably; hopelessly; discouragingly. adjectives essential; crisp; sinewy

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
puîné: (originally puisné) from puis "after" and né, past participle of naître "to be born". Related to puisne:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 微小
 * Dutch: ,
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, tirillas, gualtrapas

Noun

 * 1) fist

Etymology
From pugnus:.