- scrabbly, scrubby - sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods"
Antonyms: unwooded, treeless (indirect, via wooded)
- scrawny, scrubby, stunted - inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
Antonym: superior (indirect, via inferior)