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skin bones
| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| 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: | underweight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorectic, bony, gangly, malnourished, puny, scrawny, shadow, skeleton, skin and bones, skinny, starved, stringbean, undernourished, undersized |
| Antonyms: | chubby, fat, overweight, plump, thick |
| Main Entry: | skeletal |
| 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 |
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