Antonyms for stunted
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : stuhn-tid |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈstʌn tɪd |
Definition of stunted
Origin :- "check in growth, dwarf," 1650s, verb use of Middle English adjective stunnt "foolish," from Old English stunt "short-witted, foolish" (cf. stuntspræc "foolish talk"), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (cf. Old Norse stuttr "short"), from the root of stump. Related: Stunted; stunting.
- adj kept from growing
- He was interred under the stunted oak where Master Headley had been tied.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- The thick, stunted columns, left in the rough, also awaited their sculptors.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- She felt cheated, stunted, revengeful because of this common fate.
- Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley
- Jakin was a stunted child of fourteen, and Lew was about the same age.
- Extract from : « Soldiers Three, Part II. » by Rudyard Kipling
- Everywhere on Long Island grew the stunted bushes, and everywhere they were valued.
- Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle
- All the oaks are dwarfs, stunted by the lack of soil and force of the winds.
- Extract from : « Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts » by Rosalind Northcote
- Out of the saddle he was seen to be short and stunted, with legs badly bowed.
- Extract from : « Nicanor - Teller of Tales » by C. Bryson Taylor
- You have even been stunted in your growth, as Lady Anne said.
- Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
- He said he didn't want none of us to be stunted in our growing.
- Extract from : « Slave Narratives, Oklahoma » by Various
- In the Northern colonies the growth was stunted by the climate.
- Extract from : « A History of American Christianity » by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
Synonyms for stunted
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