1. (superl.) Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.

2. (n.) A youth; a novice.

Lenten Spartan abstemious ascetic attenuated austere breakable brittle cadaverous cheap-jack cobwebby corpselike cramped crumbly dainty decrepit delicate delicately weak diminutive dinky dwarf dwarfed dwarfish effeminate emacerated emaciate emaciated exiguous feeble flimsy fragile frail frangible frugal gimcrack gimcracky gossamery haggard half-pint hollow-eyed impoverished inconsequential inferior infirm insignificant jejune jerkwater jerry jerry-built knee-high lean light lightweight limited little marantic marasmic meager mean measly midget minor minute miserly namby-pamby narrow negligible niggling nugatory one-horse paltry papery parsimonious pasteboardy peaked peaky petite pettifogging petty picayune picayunish piddling piffling pinched pindling pint-sized poky poor punk pygmy scant scanty scrawny scrimp scrimpy shattery short shriveled sickly sissified skeletal skimp skimpy sleazy slender slight slim small small-beer small-time smallish spare sparing starvation starved starveling stingy stinted straitened stunted subsistence tabetic tabid tacky thin tinhorn tiny trifling trivial two-bit two-by-four underdeveloped underfed undernourished undersized unimportant unnourishing unnutritious unsound unsubstantial useless wasted watered watery weak weakly weazeny wispy withered wizened womanish worthless wraithlike