stunted

stunted
Synonyms and related words:
Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, Tom Thumb, abstemious, arrested, ascetic, austere, backward, coarse, crude, diminutive, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, embryonic, exiguous, frugal, impoverished, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, incipient, jejune, lean, limited, little, meager, mean, midget, miserly, nanoid, narrow, niggardly, oversimple, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, pygmy, reductionistic, reductive, rough, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scant, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, simplistic, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, squat, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunt, subsistence, thin, tiny, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undersize, undersized, undeveloped, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unlabored, unlicked, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, untreated, unworked, unwrought, watered, watery, wee, wizened

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  • Stunted — Stunt ed, a. Dwarfed. {Stunt ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • stunted — [adj] kept from growing bantam, diminutive, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, halfpint*, little, measly, mite, peanut*, peewee*, pint sized*, runted, runtish, runty, scrub, short, shot, shrimp*, small, small fry*, tiny, undergrown, undersized, wee*, yea… …   New thesaurus

  • stunted — stunt|ed [ stʌntıd ] adjective 1. ) unable or not allowed to grow to normal size: stunted trees/crops 2. ) unable or not allowed to develop or do well: emotionally stunted adults stunted businesses …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • stunted — UK [ˈstʌntɪd] / US adjective 1) unable or not allowed to grow to normal size stunted trees/crops 2) unable or not allowed to develop or to do well emotionally stunted adults stunted businesses …   English dictionary

  • Stunted — Stunt Stunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stunting}.] [See {Stint}.] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant. [1913 Webster] When, by a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • stunted — adj. Stunted is used with these nouns: ↑tree …   Collocations dictionary

  • stunted — stunt|ed [ˈstʌntıd] adj not developing properly or to full size ▪ He s emotionally stunted …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • stunted — adjective a stunted geranium Syn: small, undersize(d), diminutive …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • stunted — adjective inferior in size or quality scrawny cattle scrubby cut over pine old stunted thorn trees • Syn: ↑scrawny, ↑scrubby • Similar to: ↑inferior …   Useful english dictionary

  • Stunted growth — is a reduced growth rate in human development. It is a primary manifestation of malnutrition in early childhood, including malnutrition during fetal development brought on by the malnourished mother. In developing countries, stunted growth is a… …   Wikipedia

  • Stunted projective space — In mathematics, a stunted projective space is a construction on a projective space of importance in homotopy theory. Part of a conventional projective space is collapsed down to a point.More concretely, in a real projective space, complex… …   Wikipedia

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