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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
poky \pok"y\, a. written also pokey.
1. confined; cramped. prov. eng.
1913 webster
2. dull; tedious; uninteresting. colloq.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
poky
adj 1: wasting time syn: dilatory, laggard, pokey
2: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college";
"passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" syn: jerkwater,
one-horse, pokey
also: pokiest, pokier
see also:
dilatory laggard pokey jerkwater one-horse pokiest
pokier
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
230 moby thesaurus words for "poky":
abject, abominable, ambling, arid, arrant, atrocious, banausic,
barren, base, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, blah, blank,
bloodless, blowzy, careless, cautious, characterless, cheesy,
chintzy, circumspect, claudicant, cold, colorless, contemptible,
cramped, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crummy, dead,
debased, degraded, deliberate, depraved, despicable, dilapidated,
dim, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dismal, drabbletailed, draggled,
draggletailed, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull,
dusty, easy, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, execrable,
exiguous, fade, faltering, flagging, flagrant, flat, foot-dragging,
foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, gentle, gradual, grave,
gross, grubby, half-pint, halting, heavy, heinous, ho-hum, hobbled,
hobbling, hollow, humdrum, idle, in rags, inane, indolent,
inexcitable, informal, insipid, jejune, jerkwater, knee-high,
languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lifeless, limited,
limping, little, loose, low, low-down, low-spirited, lumbering,
lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, messy, miserable, moderate, monotone,
monotonous, monstrous, mussy, nefarious, negligent, niggling,
obnoxious, odious, one-horse, pale, pallid, paltry, pedestrian,
petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling,
piffling, pindling, pint-sized, plodding, pointless, poking,
ponderous, poor, punk, puny, ragged, raggedy, rank, relaxed,
reluctant, reptilian, ruinous, sauntering, scabby, scraggly,
scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, short,
shuffling, slack, slatternly, slight, slipshod, sloppy, slothful,
slovenly, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow,
slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving,
slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped,
sluggish, sluttish, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish,
snail-paced, snaillike, solemn, sordid, spiritless, squalid,
staggering, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strolling, stuffy, superficial,
tacky, tasteless, tattered, tedious, tentative, tinhorn, toddling,
tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, two-bit,
two-by-four, unhurried, unkempt, unlively, unmentionable, unneat,
unsightly, untidy, vapid, vile, waddling, wooden, wretched
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