puny

Meanings

Plural: punies

Adjective Satellite

• inferior in strength or significance
  • "a puny physique"
  • "puny excuses"
• (used especially of persons) of inferior size

Adj

• Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak.
• (Frequently) ill; poorly, sickly.
• Alternative spelling of puisne.
• Inferior in rank; specifically, of a judge: junior.
• Alternative spelling of puisne.
• Coming later in time; secondary, subsequent.
• Alternative spelling of puisne.
• Not experienced; novice.

Noun

• An inferior person; a subordinate; also, an insignificant person.
• A younger person; a junior.
• Alternative spelling of puisne.
• A person who is not experienced; a beginner, a novice.
• Alternative spelling of puisne.
• A puisne or junior judge.
• A new student at a school, university, the Inns of Court, etc.; a junior.

Synonyms

abecedarian, absolute zero, alphabetarian, also-ran, amateur, angular, anorexic, apprentice, asswipe, badling, beginner, blatherskite, bugger, bun, carrion, chopped liver, cipher, cockstain, colt, compact, crumb, custron, dandiprat, doink, emaciated, fellow, first-timer, fledgling, fresh meat, fresher, freshman, fritlag, fun size, fun-sized, gangling, gangly, gaunt, geek, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, greener, greenhorn, greenie, haggard, homo novus, hoon, ickle, inceptor, inferior, initiate, insignificant, Joe Nobody, Johnny-come-lately, junior, lank, lanky, learner, leptosome, lidderon, lit'l, little, little guy, losel, loser, louse, low, macilent, maggot, mini, minnow, modest, n00b, ne'er-do-well, nebbish, neophyte, new bug, new chum, newb, newbie, newbro, newcomer, newling, no one, no-good, no-mark, nobody, nonce, nonentity, noob, nothing, nothingburger, novi, novice, novitiate, nowmun, nozzer, nub, nubcake, pelf, pencil-necked, peon, petty, picayune, pig dog, pile of shit, pint-sized, pip-squeak, pissant, pleb, pocket-size, probationer, probationist, probie, prole, puisne, punk, puny, pup, quat, quidam, ramp, rangy, rawboned, recruit, reedy, rinky-dink, roly-poly, rookie, runty, scraggy, scrawny, scullion, shadow, shrimp, shrimpy, skin and bones, skinny, slight, slim, slubberdegullion, small, small-scale, sparrow-fart, starved, stranger, streak of piss, tenderfoot, thin as a rake, toerag, trainee, truant, twerp, tyro, underling, undernourished, underperson, undersized, underweight, unworthy, vassal, wankstain, waste of space, wasted, wee, weedy, wurly, younker, zero, zilch

Antonyms

little guy, nonentity, peasant, peon, pleb, plebe, prole, shrimp, superior, worthless person

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