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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stunted \Stunt"ed\, adjective Dwarfed. -- {Stunt"ed*ness}, noun
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stunt \Stunt\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Stunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stunting}.] [See {Stint}.] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stunted
adjective: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: {scrawny}, {scrubby}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "stunted": Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, Tom Thumb, abstemious, arrested, ascetic, austere, backward, coarse, crude, diminutive, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, embryonic, exiguous, frugal, impoverished, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, incipient, jejune, lean, limited, little, meager, mean, midget, miserly, nanoid, narrow, niggardly, oversimple, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, pygmy, reductionistic, reductive, rough, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scant, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, simplistic, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, squat, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunt, subsistence, thin, tiny, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undersize, undersized, undeveloped, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unlabored, unlicked, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, untreated, unworked, unwrought, watered, watery, wee, wizened
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