Word Meanings - UNDERSIZED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of a size less than is common.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNDERSIZED)

• Puny
• Petty
• undeveloped
• undersized
• feeble
• pigmy
• dwarfish
• small
• inferior
• tiny

Related words: (words related to UNDERSIZED)

• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• FEEBLE
  OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• INFERIOR
  Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court , a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure , a small letter or figure standing at the
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• PIGMY
  See
• FEEBLE-MINDED
  Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. "comfort the feeble-minded." 1 Thess. v. 14. -- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• PETTY
  Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
• SMALLS
  See 3
• DWARFISH
  Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub. -- Dwarf"ish*ly, adv. -- Dwarf"ish*ness, n.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• PETTYCHAPS
  Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler .
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• ENFEEBLEMENT
  The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
• ENFEEBLE
  To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott. Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate.
• INFEEBLE
  See ENFEEBLE