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puniness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of puniness

the quality or state of being little in size

a nagging dissatisfaction with his physical puniness drove him to become a body builder

Synonyms of puniness

diminutiveness, fineness, littleness, slightness, smallness

Words Related to puniness

minuteness, tininess

meagerness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, skimpiness, slenderness, slimness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess

deficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness

Near Antonyms of puniness

enormity, enormousness, grossness, hugeness, immenseness, immensity, magnitude, mountainousness, prodigiousness, stupendousness

extensiveness, vastness

excessiveness, extravagance, extremeness, immoderacy

abundance, ampleness, bountifulness, copiousness, generosity, healthiness, liberality

adequacy, sufficiency

heaviness, heftiness, weightiness

bulkiness, massiveness, voluminousness

Antonyms of puniness

bigness, grandness, greatness, largeness, magnitude

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