punyadjective
uk/ˈpjuː.ni/us/ˈpjuː.ni/small; weak; not effective:
a puny little man
My car only has a puny little engine.
The party's share of the vote rose from a puny 13 percent in the last election to 21 percent this time.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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