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stubbier

stubbier is the comparative form of stubby.

Meaning of stubby

Adjective

stubby (comparative stubbier, superlative stubbiest)

  1. Abounding with stubs.
    Synonyms:
    squat, stumpy
  2. Like a stub; short, especially cut short, thick and stiff; stunted; stubbed.
    • St Cuthbert's stands among trees at one corner of the green, and has a 17th-century bellcote decorated with stone balls and a stubby spire.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 174

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Questions about stubbier

What is stubbier the comparative form of?
Stubbier is the comparative form of stubby.

Words near stubbier in the dictionary

  1. stubbers
  2. Stubbes
  3. stubbie
  4. stubbie holder
  5. stubbie holders
  6. stubbier
  7. stubbies
  8. stubbiest
  9. stubbified
  10. stubbifies
  11. stubbify

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stubbier (page history and authors); stubby (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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