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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skinny |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, attenuated, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skeleton, skin and bones, spare, thin, wasted |
| Antonyms: | plump, thick, well-nourished |
| Main Entry: | bleak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barren |
| Synonyms: | austere, bare, blank, blighted, bombed, bulldozed, burned, chilly, cleared, cold, deforested, desert, deserted, desolate, dreary, exposed, flat, gaunt, grim, open, raw, scorched, stripped, unpopulated, unsheltered, weather-beaten, wild, windswept |
| Antonyms: | appealing, bright, comfortable, nice, pleasant, sunny |
| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
Example Sentences
- Pale and gaunt, he stood there, having endured three years of pretrial solitary confinement.
- All were slim and gaunt.
- Today, the landscape is still littered with the gaunt ventilation shafts of mines past, but not present.
| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
| Synonyms: | appalling, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
| Antonyms: | animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |
| Main Entry: | emaciated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undernourished; thin |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, bony, cadaverous, consumptive, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, pinched, scrawny, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin as rail, underfed, wasted, wizened |
| Antonyms: | fat, heavy, overnourished, overweight, plump |
| Main Entry: | haggard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn, weakened |
| Synonyms: | ashen, careworn, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded, fagged, fatigued, fretted, gaunt, ghastly, lank, lean, pale, pallid, pinched, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skinny, spare, starved, thin, tired, wan, wasted, weak, wearied, worn-down, wrinkled |
| Antonyms: | fresh, healthy, hearty, strong, unworn |
| Main Entry: | lanky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tall and thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, broomstick, extenuated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, lean, meager, rangy, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, slender, spare, spindling, spindly, stilt, stringy, twiggy, weedy |
| Antonyms: | squat |
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, barren, beanpole, bony, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, inadequate, infertile, lank, lanky, meager, no fat, pitiful, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, shadow*, sinewy, skinny, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stick, stilt, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, twiggy, unfruitful, unproductive, wasted, wiry, wizened, worn |
| Antonyms: | fat, plump |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, bare, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, broomstick, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, hungry, lacking, lank, lanky, lean, lithe, little, narrow, rattleboned, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skin and bones, skinny, slender, slim, spare, starved, stinted, stunted, tenuous, underfed, wanting, willowy, withered |
| Antonyms: | big, fat, full, large, wide |
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