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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | bulletin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | message, notification |
| Synonyms: | account, announcement, break, calendar, communication, communiqué, dispatch, flash*, handout, hot wire, item, list, news, news flash, notice, program, publication, release, report, scoop*, skinny*, statement, the dope, what's going down, what's happening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information transmitted |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, communiqué, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, hot story, ideas, info, information, inside story, intelligence, language, lowdown, message, missive, news, note, pipeline, poop, prophecy, précis, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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: | proof |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evidence, authentication |
| Synonyms: | affidavit, argument, attestation, averment, case, certification, chapter and verse, clincher, clue, confirmation, corroboration, credentials, criterion, cue*, data, demonstration, deposition, documents, establishment, exhibit, facts, goods*, grabber, grounds, information, lowdown, nitty-gritty, paper trail, picture, reason, reasons, record, scoop*, score*, skinny*, smoking gun, straight stuff, substantiation, testament, testimony, trace, validation, verification, warrant, wherefore, why*, whyfor, witness |
| Notes: | evidence (from Latin e- 'out' + videre 'to see') is information that helps form a conclusion; proof is factual information that verifies a conclusion |
| Antonyms: | hypothesis, theory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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