Thesaurus / lank
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synonyms for lank
- 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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The soubrette had a lank young body neatly attired in a store suit and shirt-waist.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONHis hair and brows and lashes were paler than straw, and his long lank figure was without either distinction or muscularity.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONThe master manhunter wheeled, saw the lank figure of Jeff Weedham standing in the door.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSThe door of the rotunda swings open, admitting the tall, lank figure of the Deputy Warden.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANHe had the Yankee body, lank and ribbed, and was so tall that his head seemed always looking over a transom.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSONTake him in repose, and he looked a lank ascetic who dreamed of a happy land where flagellation was a joy and pain a panacea.
YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERUp to this day I confound the worthy man with John the Baptist, probably because he looked so lank and long and lean.
EAST ANGLIAJ. EWING RITCHIEThe non-commissioned officer was a tall Kentuckian, over six feet high, lank and raw-boned.
A LIEUTENANT AT EIGHTEENOLIVER OPTICHer round, red full-moon face contrasted in a lively manner with the old man's grey, lank, harsh visage.
A CHARMING FELLOW, VOLUME II (OF 3)FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPEHe grasped Ba'tiste in his lank arms, then turned beaming to the rest of the gaping crowd.
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WORDS RELATED TO LANK
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.