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Synonyms for scrubby

  • adjective

Most common

second-rate wooded scrabbly

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Shabby — inferior in size or quality

shabby, poor, cheap, small, miserable, sorry, mean, crummy informal, low, wretched, pathetic, second-rate, base, pitiful, sad, trashy, vile, stingy, shoddy, cheesy, despicable, miserly

2. Stunted

stunted, scrawny, dwarfish

Other

wooded, pygmy, scrabbly

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Inferior in size or quality.

  2. adj. 2

    Covered with or consisting of scrub.

Related words

Word family
scrub
Other spellings
scrubbie

Example sentences

  • wooded Ziri is familiar with the wooded areas around here.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
scrubbyrising
woodedsteady
scrabblysteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
low1, sad1
4 letters
mean1, poor1, base1, vile1
5 letters
small1, sorry2, cheap1, pygmy2
6 letters
cheesy2, wooded2, shabby2, trashy2, stingy2, shoddy2, crummy2
7 letters
pitiful3, stunted2, scrawny2, miserly3
8 letters
pathetic3, wretched2, dwarfish, scrabbly
9 letters
miserable4
10 letters
despicable4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sorry2 = 2 syllables).