ADJECTIVE | all | scrubby, scrabbly | sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush |
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all | scrubby, scrawny, stunted | inferior in size or quality |
Sounds | skrah'biy | |
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Rhymes | ab / Ab / AB ... zombie: 62 rhymes with biy... |
Meaning | sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush. | |
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Example | "open scrubby woods" | |
Synonym | scrabbly | |
Broader | wooded | Covered with growing trees and bushes etc |
Nouns | scrub | dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes |
scrubbiness | the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality |
Meaning | inferior in size or quality. | |
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Example | "scrubby cut-over pine" | |
Synonyms | scrawny, stunted | |
Broader | inferior | Of low or inferior quality |
Spanish | escuálido, raquítico | |
Catalan | raquític, renoc, renocat | |
Nouns | scrubbiness | the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality |
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