Synonyms for stunted
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1. stunted

   Synonyms:
   base, deep, degraded, depressed, dwarfed, inferior, low, mean, short

   Antonyms:
   elevated, eminent, exalted, high, lofty, noble, proud, steep, tall, towering, uplifted

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1. scrawny, scrubby, stuntedadjective

   inferior in size or quality

   "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

   Synonyms:
   scrubby, scrabbly, boney, skinny, underweight, scraggy, scrawny, weedy

   Antonyms:
   superior

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1. stuntedadjective

   Synonyms:
   dwarfish, dwarfed, diminutive, small, little, tiny, liliputian, pygmean

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1. stuntedadjective

   Synonyms:
   dwarfed, atrophied, undeveloped, scrubby, undersized

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1. List of paraphrases for "stunted":

   delayed

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1. Kathy Campbell:

   Like many things associated with liver transplant, it is a bit of a balancing act, as her physician I want to do everything absolutely to keep her healthy and to try to make her growth normal and her labs as good as can possibly get them. But at the same time, the worse her labs are [and] the more stunted she is as far as her growth is, the higher her score.

2. Reuben Dagenhart:

   Look at me! a hundred and five pounds, a grown man and no education. I may be mistaken, but I think the years I've put in the cotton mills stunted my growth. They kept me from getting any schooling. I had to stop school after third grade and now I need the education I didn't get.

3. World Food Programme:

   In northern Ghana, 30 percent of children under five are stunted or chronically malnourished, this not only affects their growth but also their educational development and economic potential, and consequently the future of the country.

4. Tindo Managing Director Adrian Ferraretto:

   It's stunted our growth, we are survivors, we're tenacious, but our potential can't be realised as quickly as it otherwise could be.

5. Kalle Hirvonen:

   If children living at altitude are, on average, more stunted than their peers at sea level, then a more significant effort to address high altitude stunting is needed.