Meaning & use
Runty
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Unusually small or underdeveloped, especially compared to others of the same kind.
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The runty piglet needed extra bottle-feeding to catch up with its littermates.
He joked about being the runty one on a basketball team full of giants.
A note on using this word
Derived from "runt," originally used for the smallest animal in a litter, now applied informally to people and objects too.
Words with a similar meaning
punyundersized
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Words with an opposite meaning
hulkingoversized
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