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SCRUBBY (scrubbier, scrubbiest)
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, scrubbiest Dictionary entry overview: What does scrubby mean?
• SCRUBBY (adjective)
The adjective SCRUBBY has 2 senses:
1. sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
2. inferior in size or quality
Familiarity information: SCRUBBY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: scrubbiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
Synonyms:
scrabbly; scrubby
Context example:
open scrubby woods
Similar:
wooded (covered with growing trees and bushes etc)
Derivation:
scrub (dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes)
scrubbiness (the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Inferior in size or quality
Synonyms:
Context example:
old stunted thorn trees
Similar:
inferior (of low or inferior quality)
Derivation:
scrubbiness (the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality)
Context examples
He stared at me with a hopeless expression upon his vacuous, good-natured, scrubby little face.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I should be very happy, aunt; but Brighton is almost by Beachey Head; and if I could get so far, I could not expect to be welcome in such a smart place as that—poor scrubby midshipman as I am.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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