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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | twiggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
| Synonyms: | all skin and bones, angular, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fleshless, 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, slender, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, thin as a rail, threadlike, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted*, weedy, wizened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
| Synonyms: | all skin and bones, angular, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fleshless, 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, slender, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, thin as a rail, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted*, wizened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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