1. sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush - open scrubby woods • Syn: scrabbly • Similar to: wooded • Derivationally related forms: scrubbiness, scrub 2. inferior in size or quality - scrawny cattle - scrubby cut-over pine - old stunted thorn trees • Syn: scrawny, stunted • Similar to: inferior • Derivationally related forms: stuntedness (for: stunted), scrubbiness, scrawniness (for: scrawny)