STUNTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stunted mean? 

• STUNTED (adjective)
  The adjective STUNTED has 1 sense:

1. inferior in size or quality

  Familiarity information: STUNTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUNTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inferior in size or quality

Synonyms:

scrawny; scrubby; stunted

Context example:

old stunted thorn trees

Similar:

inferior (of low or inferior quality)

Derivation:

stuntedness (smallness of stature)

 Context examples 

In which case, our Sun would have gathered the lion's share of dust and gas it seems, leaving its twin dark and stunted.

(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

YOU, who from his cradle reared him to be what he was, and stunted what he should have been!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A disorder, wherein unstable chromosomes have a tendency to break and become rearranged, characterized by microcephaly, stunted growth, subnormal mental development, cafe-au-lait spots, and immunodeficiency.

(Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, it stunted the growth and branching of cell extensions and reduced the number of spines on these extensions, which are needed to relay chemical signals from neighboring cells into electrical impulses.

(Schizophrenia risk gene linked to cognitive deficits in mice, National Institutes of Health)

This means that in case you assumed that your rise upwards might have been stunted by the new moon of October 27 (something that might have crossed your mind if you work for others and are not planning to make a radical career switch), then you will be cheered by this news.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Derek Headey, the study’s lead author and a senior research scientist at the International Food Policy Research Institute, United States, said: There are about two billion people with micronutrient deficiencies such as anaemia, and several hundred million very young and vulnerable children suffering from stunted growth globally.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

Even at that moment of tension I found time for amazement at the discovery that he was quite a short man, his head not higher than my shoulder—a stunted Hercules whose tremendous vitality had all run to depth, breadth, and brain.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)