Word Meanings - SKINNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SKINNY)

• Lean
• Meagre
• lank
• tabid
• emaciated
• shrivelled
• bony
• thin
• scraggy
• skinny
• slender
• scanty
• Scraggy
• Jagged
• lean
• uneven
• gaunt
• raw
• angular

Related words: (words related to SKINNY)

• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• JAGGERY
  Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra .
• TABID
  Affected by tabes; tabetic. In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. -- Tab"id*ly, adv. -- Tab"id*ness, n.
• GAUNTLETTED
  Wearing a gauntlet.
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• JAGGER
  One who carries about a small load; a peddler. See 2d Jag. Sir W. Scott.
• JAGGED
  Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. " Jagged vine leaves' shade." Trench. -- Jag"ged*ly, adv. -- Jag"ged*ness, n.
• UNEVEN
  1. Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground. 2. Not equal; not of equal length. Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. Peacham. 3. Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3,
• SCRAGGY
  1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips. 2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck." Sir W. Scott.
• GAUNTREE; GAUNTRY
  A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure. Knight. (more info) 1. A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott.
• ANGULARLY
  In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson.
• GAUNT
  Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. "The gaunt mastiff." Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. Nichols.
• GAUNTLY
  In a gaunt manner; meagerly.
• JAGG
  See JAG
• SCANTY
  1. Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. his dominions were very narrow and scanty. Locke. Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. Pope. 2. Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words;
• SKINNY
  Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.
• JAGGERY PALM
  An East Indian palm having leaves pinnate with wedge-shaped divisions, the petiole very stout. It is the principal source of jaggery, and is often cultivated for ornament.
• ANGULARNESS
  The quality of being angular.
• EMACIATE
  To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." Sir T. Browne. (more info) maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer
• EMACIATION
  1. The act of making very lean. 2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• INANGULAR
  Not angular.
• SEPTANGULAR
  Heptagonal.
• EQUIANGULAR
  Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. Equiangular spiral. See under Spiral, n. -- Mutually equiangular, applied to two figures, when every angle of the one has its equal among the angles of the other.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• TRIANGULAR
  Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab
• RECTANGULARITY
  The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.
• QUADRANGULAR
  Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal. -- Quad*ran"gu*lar*ly, adv.
• QUINQUANGULAR
  Having five angles or corners.
• SUPRA-ANGULAR
  See SURANGULAR
• ARMGAUNT
  With gaunt or slender legs. "An armgaunt steed." Shak. Note: This word is peculiar to Shakespeare. Its meaning has not yet been satisfactorily explained.
• SUBANGULAR
  Slightly angular.