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Definition of Puniness
1. Noun. The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
Generic synonyms: Unimportance
Specialized synonyms: Joke
Derivative terms: Petty, Puny, Slight, Trivial
2. Noun. Smallness of stature.
Generic synonyms: Littleness, Smallness
Derivative terms: Puny, Runty, Runty, Stunted
Definition of Puniness
1. n. The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.
Definition of Puniness
1. Noun. The quality of being puny ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Puniness
1. the state of being puny [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puniness
Literary usage of Puniness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Laws of Heredity by George Archdall O'Brien Reid (1910)
"Second, we may infer that the puniness of the children is due, not to the
deterioration of the germ-plasm, but merely to inferior development resulting from ..."
2. White Fang by Jack London (1906)
"Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.
Nothing happened. He continued to gaze, and in his interest he forgot to ..."
3. The History of the Balkan Peninsula: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Ferdinand Schevill (1922)
"As for its successor, the puny empire of Constantinople, we have traced the
circumstances of its birth and set down convincing reasons for its puniness. ..."
4. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1908)
"... something even of the same contemptuous despair, the same sense of the puniness
of man in the centre of a cruel and frowning universe; but there is in ..."
5. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1898)
"... something even of the same contemptuous despair, the same sense of the puniness
of man in the centre of a cruel and frowning universe; but there is in ..."
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