Dictionary Definition
scrubby adj
1 sparsely covered with stunted trees or
vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods" [syn: scrabbly]
2 inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle";
"scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny, stunted] [also: scrubbiest, scrubbier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- covered with or consisting of scrub
- inferior in size or quality
Translations
- Finnish: pensakkoinen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Lilliputian, Tom Thumb,
abject, abominable, afforestational,
arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, arrant, atrocious, base, base-minded, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt,
bosky, braky, broken-down, bushlike, bushy, cheap, cheesy, citrous, common, coniferous, contemptible, copsy, crummy, debased, deciduous, degraded, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, dendrologic, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, down-at-heel,
dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, evergreen, execrable, faded, flagrant, forest, forestal, forested, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, gross, hardwood, heinous, ignoble, incipient, little, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, mangy, meager, mean, measly, meretricious, midget, miserable, monstrous, nanoid, nefarious, nondeciduous, obnoxious, odious, paltry, pathetic, petty, piny, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, pygmy, rank, reforestational,
reptilian, rubbishy, rudimental, rudimentary, run-down,
runty, sad, scabby, scraggy, scrubbly, scrublike, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, shriveled, shrubby, shrublike, shrunk, shrunken, silvicultural, small, softwood, sorry, squalid, squat, stunted, sylvan, tacky, timbered, trashy, treelike, trumpery, two-for-a-cent,
two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
undersize, undersized, unmentionable, valueless, vile, wizened, wooded, woodland, woodsy, woody, worthless, wretched