Puny vs Limited - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
(obsolete) A younger person.
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(obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
(archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
Of inferior size, strength or significance.
* Shakespeare
* Keble
(limit)
With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
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Puny is a related term of limited.
As adjectives the difference between puny and limited
is that puny is of inferior size, strength or significance while limited is with certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.As a noun puny
is (obsolete) a new pupil at a school etc; a junior student.As a verb limited is
(limit).puny
English
Noun
(punies)- a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies , but obedience.
- (Fuller)
Adjective
(er)- A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
- Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* punny – relating to a pun ----limited
English
(wikipedia limited)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.