Meaning

2 senses

  1. Covered with or consisting of scrub.

    a scrubby landscape

  2. Inferior in size or quality.

    scrubby crops

    scrubby cattle

    inferior in size or quality

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From scrub + -y.

From scrub + -y.

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Forms

scrubbier, scrubbiest
Comparativescrubbier Lesson
Superlativescrubbiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

73 synonyms
sorryA1badA1baseA2bumB2cheapA2garbageA1lousyB2lowA2naughtyB2poorA1rubbishB1sadA1slightB2slimA2
Close in meaning
  • inferior in size or quality:scrawnystunted
  • sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush:scrabbly

Word family

2 related words
Relatedscrubscrubbiness

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scrubscrubberscruffscruffy
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