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Prevented from fully growing or developing

Not (as) fully developed as expected

Shorter in size than average or expected

Mentally deficient or underdeveloped

Not enough in size, amount or degree

Relating to an immature, undeveloped, or basic form

Forming a very small remnant of something that was once greater or more noticeable

Past tense for to stunt or suppress the normal physical growth of

Past tense for to check or hinder the growth or development of

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Adjective

Prevented from fully growing or developing

“Her baby suffered from her stunted development and poor capacity to mother.”

Adjective

Not (as) fully developed as expected

“A surplus cannot be squeezed out of the turnip of a stunted economy.”

Adjective

Shorter in size than average or expected

miniaturized^US

knee high to a grasshopper

knee-high to a grasshopper

miniaturised^UK

close to the ground

knee high to a gnat

a slip of a …

near to the ground

all skin and bones

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“The trees exhibit a stunted appearance.”

Adjective

Mentally deficient or underdeveloped

mentally defective

soft in the head

slow on the uptake

dead from the neck up

thick as two short planks

not the full shilling

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Adjective

Not enough in size, amount or degree

in short supply

too little too late

inconsequential

thin on the ground

few and far between

nickel-and-dime

of no consequence

of no importance

hard to come by

not worth mentioning

not worth bothering about

barely sufficient

not to be had for love nor money

thinly distributed

scarcely credible

hard to believe

hard to swallow

not appropriate for

on the small side

scarcer than hen's teeth

seldom met with

coming up short

lacking in detail

with an insufficiency of

of little importance

of little consequence

of little account

neither here nor there

not worth speaking of

of no significance

difficult to believe

unsubstantiated

won't hold water

self-contradictory

on the back of an envelope

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Adjective

Relating to an immature, undeveloped, or basic form

imperfectly developed

Adjective

Forming a very small remnant of something that was once greater or more noticeable

inconsequential

undistinguishable

indistinguishable

hard to make out

impossible to detect

barely perceptible

not worth mentioning

of no consequence

of no importance

nickel-and-dime

not worth bothering about

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Verb

Past tense for to stunt or suppress the normal physical growth of

miniaturized^US

miniaturised^UK

“I believe that a steady, uncontrolled and indiscriminate diet of comic books can stunt a child's mental and spiritual growth just as much as a steady malnutrition can stunt his physical growth.”

Verb

Past tense for to check or hinder the growth or development of

“Were he to stay, he would not only stunt his development as a writer but also as a person.”

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