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synonyms for skin and bones

  • ashen
  • bag of bones
  • blanched
  • bloodless
  • consumptive
  • dead
  • deathlike
  • deathly
  • emaciated
  • exsanguinous
  • gaunt
  • ghastly
  • ghostly
  • haggard
  • pallid
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • sallow
  • shadowy
  • sick
  • skeletal
  • skeletonlike
  • spectral
  • thin
  • wan
  • wasted
  • anorexic
  • bony
  • gaunt
  • scrawny
  • skeletal
  • skinny
  • atrophied
  • attenuate
  • attenuated
  • famished
  • lean
  • peaked
  • pinched
  • starved
  • wasted
  • cadaverous
  • consumptive
  • haggard
  • lank
  • like a bag of bones
  • meager
  • skeletonlike
  • thin as a rail
  • underfed
  • wizened
On this page you'll find 239 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to skin and bones, such as: ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, and dead.

antonyms for skin and bones

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  • flushed
  • lifelike
  • lively
  • chubby
  • fat
  • heavy
  • overweight
  • plump
  • thick
  • full
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How to use skin and bones in a sentence

Toward the end William looked like the skin-and-bones remnant of a saint.
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WORDS RELATED TO SKIN AND BONES

  • ashen
  • bag of bones
  • blanched
  • bloodless
  • consumptive
  • dead
  • deathlike
  • deathly
  • emaciated
  • exsanguinous
  • gaunt
  • ghastly
  • ghostly
  • haggard
  • pallid
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • sallow
  • shadowy
  • sick
  • skeletal
  • skeletonlike
  • skin and bones
  • spectral
  • thin
  • wan
  • wasted
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.