Stunted

4 definitions found

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

  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.
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           When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a
           nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies,
           the ill or may do is beyond all calculation. --Burke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stunted \Stunt"ed\, a.
     Dwarfed. -- {Stunt"ed*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stunted
       adj : inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby
             cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: {scrawny},
              {scrubby}]

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

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "stunted":
     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