Definitions for puny

puny pu·ny

Spelling: [pyoo-nee]
IPA: /ˈpyu ni/

Puny is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in puny (npuy).

Definitions for puny

adjective

  1. of less than normal size and strength; weak.
  2. unimportant; insignificant; petty or minor:
  3. Obsolete. puisne.

Origin of puny

First recorded in 1540-50; spelling variant of puisne

Examples for puny

In the end, Shumlin led by a puny 2,434 votes, less than the 50 percent margin needed for victory under Vermont law.

But his standing in opinion polls is puny, and he has been targeted by Sarah Palin.

What could man's law—his proud but puny morality—do to injure her?

I am ashamed to kill such a puny little dwarf as you seem to be.

Complete and utter accident of fate, the puny matter of his voter enrollment.

Even we puny creatures can divine something of their birth and death.

Pardon me for inserting these puny details in what I have to say.

Mighty NATO rains down bombs and bullets on Gaddafi's puny forces, but can't score a knockout.

And he shook his puny fist at the blue vault of heaven—Ajax defying Jupiter.

Beauchene asked her as he looked at the pale, puny child on her arm.

Word Value for puny
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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