puny

Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak.

Sickly; ill.

A bedbug: same as punice.

Later-born; younger; junior. See puisne, 1.

Small and weak; inferior or imperfectly developed in size or strength; feeble; petty; insignificant.

Synonyms Little, diminutive, stunted, starveling.

A young, inexperienced person; a junior; a novice.

A youth; a novice.

Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.

A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.