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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. stunted

    Synonyms:
    base, deep, degraded, depressed, dwarfed, inferior, low, mean, short

    Antonyms:
    elevated, eminent, exalted, high, lofty, noble, proud, steep, tall, towering, uplifted

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. scrawny, scrubby, stuntedadjective

    inferior in size or quality

    "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

    Synonyms:
    scrubby, scrabbly, boney, skinny, underweight, scraggy, scrawny, weedy

    Antonyms:
    superior

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  1. stuntedadjective

    Synonyms:
    dwarfish, dwarfed, diminutive, small, little, tiny, liliputian, pygmean

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  1. stuntedadjective

    Synonyms:
    dwarfed, atrophied, undeveloped, scrubby, undersized

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  1. List of paraphrases for "stunted":

    delayed

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#402low
#746short
#988base
#1008mean
#1543deep
#6366delayed
#12913depressed
#12952skinny
#15200inferior
#22311degraded
#44263boney
#56077underweight
#57694stunted
#76113weedy
#78026dwarfed
#95082scrawny
#109298scrubby

How to use stunted in a sentence?

  1. Kathy Campbell:

    Like many things associated with liver transplant, it is a bit of a balancing act, as her physician I want to do everything absolutely to keep her healthy and to try to make her growth normal and her labs as good as can possibly get them. But at the same time, the worse her labs are [and] the more stunted she is as far as her growth is, the higher her score.

  2. Kalle Hirvonen:

    If children living at altitude are, on average, more stunted than their peers at sea level, then a more significant effort to address high altitude stunting is needed.

  3. Reuben Dagenhart:

    Look at me! a hundred and five pounds, a grown man and no education. I may be mistaken, but I think the years I've put in the cotton mills stunted my growth. They kept me from getting any schooling. I had to stop school after third grade and now I need the education I didn't get.

  4. Phil Robertson:

    But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy.

  5. Tindo Managing Director Adrian Ferraretto:

    It's stunted our growth, we are survivors, we're tenacious, but our potential can't be realised as quickly as it otherwise could be.


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