scrubby

Other forms of scrubby

comparative or superlative

scrubbier

comparative or superlative

scrubbiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scrubby

What does scrubby mean?

scrubby means "sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scrubby?

scrubby has 2 syllables: scrub-by. The stress falls on "scrub". In IPA it is /ˈskɹʌbi/.

What is another word for scrubby?

Close synonyms include scrabbly, scrawny, stunted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scrubby a common word?

scrubby is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.