stunted

stunted

1. simple past and past participle of stunt

   The plant's growth was stunted because it was placed in a closet.

stunted (comparative more stunted, superlative most stunted)

1. Prevented from growing or developing fully and hence shorter and stockier that usual.

   A poor diet leads to stunted growth.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 160:

     Here lay a desolate valley—a shallow, narrow valley dotted with stunted trees and covered with many great bowlders.

2. (medicine) Of a person: shorter than usual for one's age.

• (medicine): wasted

• Student, student