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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

stubbed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
  2. Abounding in stubs; stubby.
    • Then came a bit of stubbed ground, once a wood, / Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; [...] 1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 25, page 145:
  3. Not delicate; hardy, rugged.
    • Stubbed, vulgar constitutions. 1744, George Berkeley, Siris: A Chain Of Philosophical Reflexions And Inquiries Concerning The Virtues Of Tar Water:

Forms

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most stubbed Degree=Sup lexicographic
more stubbed Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unstubbed · stubbedness

stubbed en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of stub
    form of stub