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skin and bones

see definition of skin and bones
  • as inmeager
  • as inscrawny
  • as inunderweight
  • as inwasted
  • as incadaverous
  • as inskeletal
  • as inemaciated
  • as ingaunt
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Synonyms for skin and bones

adj very thin
  • slim
  • tenuous
  • angular
  • bare
  • beanpole
  • beanstalk
  • bony
  • broomstick
  • emaciated
  • gangling
  • gangly
  • gaunt
  • hungry
  • lacking
  • lank
  • lanky
  • lean
  • lithe
  • little
  • narrow
  • rattleboned
  • rawboned
  • scraggy
  • scrawny
  • skin and bones
  • skinny
  • slender
  • spare
  • starved
  • stinted
  • stunted
  • underfed
  • wanting
  • willowy
  • withered

Antonyms for skin and bones

  • adequate
  • big
  • fat
  • full
  • large
  • liberal
  • plenty
  • substantial
  • sufficient
  • wide
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

More words related to skin and bones

cadaverous

adjective. pale, corpselike

gaunt

adjective. skinny

meager

adjective. very thin

skeletal

adjective. wasted

underweight

adjective. thin
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.