Scrubby

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scrubby \Scrub"by\ (skr[u^]b"b[y^]), a. [Compar. {Scrubbier}
     (skr[u^]b"b[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Scrubbiest}.]
     Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth;
     as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." --Duke of Argyll.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scrubby
       adj 1: sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and
              underbrush; "open scrubby woods" [syn: {scrabbly}]
       2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby
          cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: {scrawny},
           {stunted}]
       [also: {scrubbiest}, {scrubbier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  148 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrubby":
     Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abject, abominable, afforestational,
     arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical,
     arboriform, arrant, atrocious, base, base-minded, bedraggled,
     beggarly, beneath contempt, bosky, braky, broken-down, bushlike,
     bushy, cheap, cheesy, citrous, common, coniferous, contemptible,
     copsy, crummy, debased, deciduous, degraded, dendriform, dendritic,
     dendroid, dendrologic, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirty,
     disgusting, down-at-heel, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin,
     evergreen, execrable, faded, flagrant, forest, forestal, forested,
     foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, gross, hardwood, heinous,
     ignoble, incipient, little, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen,
     mangy, meager, mean, measly, meretricious, midget, miserable,
     monstrous, nanoid, nefarious, nondeciduous, obnoxious, odious,
     paltry, pathetic, petty, piny, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor,
     pygmy, rank, reforestational, reptilian, rubbishy, rudimental,
     rudimentary, run-down, runty, sad, scabby, scraggy, scrubbly,
     scrublike, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seedy, shabby, shoddy,
     shriveled, shrubby, shrublike, shrunk, shrunken, silvicultural,
     small, softwood, sorry, squalid, squat, stunted, sylvan, tacky,
     timbered, trashy, treelike, trumpery, two-for-a-cent,
     two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, undersize,
     undersized, unmentionable, valueless, vile, wizened, wooded,
     woodland, woodsy, woody, worthless, wretched