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Runty vs Petite - What's the difference?

runty | petite |

As adjectives the difference between runty and petite

is that runty is having the characteristics of a runt while petite is .

runty

English

Adjective

(head)
  • having the characteristics of a runt
  • * 1965 , June 17, “Love—and Death—in the African Night”, The Times
    • From the light above us thin shadows flickered and a runty little image of the defiance in front of me fell on to the table. [...] The little runt was still singed and groggy [...]
  • * 1969 , October 4, Roy Hay, “Peaches and Plums”, The Times
    • Only later did I discover that a runty old almond tree, hidden behind a laburnum, riddled with peach leaf curl, [...]
  • diminutive

    • petite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
  • Of women's clothing: of small size.
  • Small, little; insignificant; petty.
  • * 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
    • The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?

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