Definition of Puny

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Definition of Puny
	Puny Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty. A youth; a novice. Related Definitions: And, Developed, Feeble, In, Inferior, Novice, Or, Petty, Size, Small, Vigor, Youth

Puny Quotations

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
Imelda Marcos

A puny body weakens the soul.
Paul Cezanne

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
John Chrysostom

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Alexander Herzen

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
G. Stanley Hall

Puny Translations

puny in Spanish is endeble
puny in Swedish is ynkligt liten

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