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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of or like bone |
| Synonyms: | anatomical, hard, osseous, ossified, skeletal |
| Main Entry: | angular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin, especially referring to people |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bony, gangling, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, rangy, rawboned, scrawny, sharp, skinny, spare |
| Antonyms: | fat, heavy, thick, weighted |
| 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: | gangling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rangy |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bony, gawky, lanky, leggy, long-legged, long-limbed, lumbering, skinny, spindly, tall, thin |
| Main Entry: | gaunt |
| 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: | 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 |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | scrawny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhealthily thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, bony, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, rawboned, scraggy, skeletal, skin-and-bones, skinny, spare, undernourished, underweight |
| Antonyms: | chubby, fat, healthy, plump |
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