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# puny

«puny» in Mova's school dictionary: **small and weak, not strong or big** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (punier, puniest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Puny means small and weak, not strong or big. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puny/#m1)

2) Puny can mean small and of little importance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puny/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a puny person or animal is too weak to work, fight or frighten anyone

### examples

- A puny lion would not frighten anyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puny/#x1)
- The puny puppy could not lift the stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puny/#x2)
- Tom felt puny after his long illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puny/#x3)
- Dad said the puny plant needed more sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puny/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «puny» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puny/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.