Poky \Pok"y\, a. [Written also pokey.]
1. Confined; cramped. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
2. Dull; tedious; uninteresting. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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