adj
Meaning 1
Covered with or consisting of scrub.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a scrubby landscape
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
scrubby
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ˈskɹʌbi/
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rhymes with -ʌbi
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CMU ARPABET: S K R AH1 B IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Inferior in size or quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- scrubby crops
- scrubby cattle
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mid, second-rate, sorry, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, lousy, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, shoddy, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Diminutive of scrubber: a small scrubber for light washing tasks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: diminutive, form-of
Examples
- dish scrubby
- shower scrubby
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a loofah.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
inferior in size or quality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- scrawny cattle
- scrubby cut-over pine
- old stunted thorn trees
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scrawny, stunted
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- open scrubby woods
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scrabbly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From scrub + -y.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: обрасъл с храсти (obrasǎl s hrasti) — covered with scrub
- Finnish: pensaikkoinen — covered with scrub
- Finnish: pusikkoinen — covered with scrub
- Polish: porośnięty krzakami — covered with scrub
- Swedish: snårig — covered with scrub
- Swedish: risig — covered with scrub
- Bulgarian: недорасъл (nedorasǎl) — inferior in size or quality
- Finnish: kitukasvuinen — inferior in size or quality
- Finnish: pienikokoinen — inferior in size or quality
- Finnish: huono — inferior in size or quality
- Finnish: surkea — inferior in size or quality
- Finnish: kurja — inferior in size or quality
- Polish: skarłowaciały — inferior in size or quality