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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wasted |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony, cadaverous, drawn, emaciated, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, scrawny, shrivelled, shrunken, skin and bones, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, undernourished, withered |
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | skinny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, bony, emaciated, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, like a rail, malnourished, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skin-and-bone, slender, spare, twiggy, undernourished, underweight |
| Antonyms: | chubby, fat, heavy, large, overweight, plump, thick |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine, light, slender |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted, wizened |
| Antonyms: | dense, fat, heavy, inflated, obese, thick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wasted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emaciated |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, scrawny, shrivelled, skeletal, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, undernourished, withered |
| Main Entry: | bony |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of or like bone |
| Synonyms: | anatomical, hard, osseous, ossified, skeletal |
| Main Entry: | structural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fundamental |
| Synonyms: | anatomic, anatomical, architectural, basic, constitutional, constructural, formalistic, formational, formative, organic, skeletal, tectonic |
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