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单词 puny
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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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punyadjective [ -er/-est only ]

us/ˈpju·ni/

small and weak, or not effective:

Don’t tell me you’re afraid of that puny little kid.
In 1981, computers were puny compared with today’s machines.
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