English-Thai Dictionary

puny

ADJ เล็ก และ อ่อนแอ  feeble diminutive weak lek-lea-on-are

 

puny

ADJ ไม่ เพียงพอ  inadequate mai-ping-por

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PUNY

a. 1. Properly, young or younger; but in this sense not used.
2. Inferior; petty; of an under rate; small and feeble. This word generally includes the signification of both smallness and feebleness; as a puny animal; a puny subject; a puny power; a puny mind.

 

PUNY

n.A young inexperienced person; a novice.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PUNY

Pu "ny, a. [Compar. Punier; superl. Puniest.] Etym: [F. puîté younger, later born, OF. puisné; puis afterwards (L. post; see Post- ) + né born, L. natus. See Natal, and cf. Puisne. ]

 

Defn: Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty. A puny subject strikes at thy great glory. Shak. Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed. Keble.

 

PUNY

PUNY Pu "ny, n.

 

Defn: A youth; a novice. [R.] Fuller.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

puny

pu ny |ˈpyo͞onē ˈpjuːni | ▶adjective ( punier , puniest ) small and weak: skeletal, white-faced, puny children. • poor in quality, amount, or size: the army was reduced to a puny 100,000 men. DERIVATIVES pu ni ly |ˈpyo͞onl -ē |adverb, pu ni ness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a younger or more junior person ): phonetic spelling of puisne .

 

Oxford Dictionary

puny

puny |ˈpjuːni | ▶adjective ( punier, puniest ) small and weak: white-faced, puny children. • poor in quality, amount, or size: the army was reduced to a puny 100,000 men. DERIVATIVES punily adverb, puniness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a younger or more junior person ): phonetic spelling of puisne .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

puny

puny adjective 1 he had been a puny kid: undersized, undernourished, underfed, stunted, slight, small, little; weak, feeble, sickly, delicate, frail, fragile; informal weedy, pint-sized. ANTONYMS sturdy. 2 puny efforts to save their homes: pitiful, pitiable, inadequate, insufficient, derisory, miserable, sorry, meager, paltry, trifling, inconsequential; informal pathetic, measly, piddling; formal exiguous. ANTONYMS substantial.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

puny

puny adjective 1 we grew up puny, with bad chests: undersized, underdeveloped, undernourished, underfed, stunted, slight, small, little, diminutive, dwarfish, pygmy; weak, feeble, weakly, sickly, delicate, frail, fragile; informal weedy, pint-sized. ANTONYMS strong, sturdy. 2 the men were jeering at the villagers' puny efforts to save their homes: pitiful, pitiable, inadequate, negligible, insufficient, scant, scanty, derisory, miserable, sorry, wretched, meagre, paltry, trifling, trivial, insignificant, inconsequential, petty; informal pathetic, measly, piddling, piffling, mingy, poxy, dinky; rare exiguous. ANTONYMS significant, sizeable, substantial.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

puny

pu ny /pjúːni /形容詞 1 ちっぽけな, 微弱な .2 取るに足らない .