Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stunty

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: stun-ty
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Stunted, tending to stunt or be stunted.

adj

Obstinate; sullen.

British usage

Example Sentences

"[…] yet not all equally prosperous; for a stunty, thorny nature preferring those that the cherry is always the most thriving upon are the freest clean growers."
"I never put my axe into a stunty tree, or one that hasn't a good, fresh-looking bark; for trees have disorders just like creaters; and where's the policy of taking a tree that's sickly, any more than you'd choose a foundered horse to ride post, or ..."
"Did I tell you there was a tree grew up in the centre of the alley—a stunty, short-boughed tree, ..."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

more stunty (comparative) most stunty (superlative)

Derived Forms

stuntiness

Synonyms

stuntish

Questions

What does stunty mean?: Stunted, tending to stunt or be stunted.

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