Stunted
English
Verb
stunted
- Simple past tense and past participle of stunt.
- The plant's growth was stunted because it was placed in a closet.
Adjective
Stunted (comparative more Stunted, superlative most Stunted)
- prevented from growing or developing
Adverbs for Stunted
cruelly; crookedly; distressingly; criminally; pitiably; oddly; wretchedly; miserably; dwarfishly; scrawnily; elfishly; queerly; unfortunately; incredibly; hopelessly; pudgily.
Thesaurus
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
