English adjective: scrubby | |||
| 1. | scrubby sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | ||
| Samples | Open scrubby woods. | ||
| Synonyms | scrabbly | ||
| Similar | wooded | ||
| Antonyms | treeless, unwooded | ||
| 2. | scrubby inferior in size or quality | ||
| Samples | Scrawny cattle. Scrubby cut-over pine. Old stunted thorn trees. | ||
| Synonyms | scrawny, stunted | ||
| Similar | inferior | ||
| Antonyms | superior | ||