Thesaurus / lank
other words for lank
MOST RELEVANT
- 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 ATHERTON
His hair and brows and lashes were paler than straw, and his long lank figure was without either distinction or muscularity.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
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.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN
He had the Yankee body, lank and ribbed, and was so tall that his head seemed always looking over a transom.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSON
Take 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 PARKER
Up 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 RITCHIE
The non-commissioned officer was a tall Kentuckian, over six feet high, lank and raw-boned.
A LIEUTENANT AT EIGHTEENOLIVER OPTIC
Her 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 TROLLOPE
He grasped Ba'tiste in his lank arms, then turned beaming to the rest of the gaping crowd.
THE WHITE DESERTCOURTNEY RYLEY COOPER
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.