[syn: scrawny, scrubby, stunted]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
scrubby
adj 1: sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and
underbrush; "open scrubby woods" [syn: scrabbly,
scrubby]
2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-
over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny,
scrubby, stunted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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