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reedy
adjective as in grassy
adjective as in lank
Weak matches
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- 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
- weedy
- wizened
adjective as in rangy
adjective as in slender/slim
adjective as in slight
adjective as in stringy
adjective as in tenuous
adjective as in thin
Strong matches
adjective as in twiggy
Weak matches
- 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
- 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
adjective as in weak
adjective as in weedy
Weak matches
- 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
- 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
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Example Sentences
Teens are shooting baskets on a cracked court amid a reedy field that stretches to a patch of woods, and a 1¼-mile loop of purpose-built single track.
He heard the thin, reedy voice cry in his ear to "Block the entrances, block the entrances!"
I sat here with my wife the last afternoon before I went to the front, he said in his reedy old mans voice.
Thus the nest and its reedy pillars are firmly bound together.
Wild-fowl breed on its reedy lochs, and moor-fowl dwell on its heather hills.
She strained her eyes and thought she made out a vague bulk moving toward the reedy point she had just quitted.
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On this page you'll find 430 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reedy, such as: carpeted, lush, verdant, grasslike, green, and lawnlike.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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