stunted
adj1
Prevented from growing or developing fully and hence shorter and stockier that usual.
- A poor diet leads to stunted growth.
- Here lay a desolate valley—a shallow, narrow valley dotted with stunted trees and covered with many great bowlders.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 160:
2
Medicine, Sciences Of a person: shorter than usual for one's age.
- Derived terms
- stuntedly, stuntedness, unstunted
- Related terms
- wasted