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lank
adjective as in thin
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
- 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
- weedy
- wizened
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Example Sentences
The soubrette had a lank young body neatly attired in a store suit and shirt-waist.
His hair and brows and lashes were paler than straw, and his long lank figure was without either distinction or muscularity.
The master manhunter wheeled, saw the lank figure of Jeff Weedham standing in the door.
The door of the rotunda swings open, admitting the tall, lank figure of the Deputy Warden.
He had the Yankee body, lank and ribbed, and was so tall that his head seemed always looking over a transom.
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On this page you'll find 87 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lank, such as: all skin and bones, angular, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, and beanstalk.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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