scrawny
11scrawny — scrawnily, adv. scrawniness, n. /skraw nee/, adj., scrawnier, scrawniest. excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck. [1825 35, Amer.; var. of dial. scranny < Norw skran lean + Y1] Syn. gaunt, emaciated. Ant. fleshy, plump. * * * …
12scrawny — adj. Scrawny is used with these nouns: ↑kid, ↑neck …
13scrawny — scraw|ny [ skrɔni ] adjective very thin, in a way that is not attractive or healthy: a scrawny half starved dog …
14scrawny — adjective thin, unattractive, and looking weak: a scrawny kid in jeans and a T shirt …
15scrawny — adjective scrawny teenage girls addicted to dieting Syn: skinny, thin, lean, as thin as a rake, skin and bones, gaunt, bony, angular, gawky, scraggy, rawboned, anorexic Ant: fat …
16scrawny — /ˈskrɔni / (say skrawnee) adjective (scrawnier, scrawniest) lean; thin; scraggy: a long scrawny neck. {variant of scranny, variant of scrannel} –scrawniness, noun …
17scrawny — adjective Thin, malnourished and weak …
18scrawny — Synonyms and related words: Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angular, anorectic, anorexic, ascetic, austere, bony, cadaverous, drawn, dwarfed, dwarfish, emaciated, exiguous, flat, flat chested, fleshless, frugal, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky,… …
19scrawny — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. underweight, puny, rawboned, bony, meager, lean. See narrowness. Ant., plump, overweight. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lanky, gaunt, lean, skinny; see thin 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a.… …
20scrawny — adj. very skinny, gaunt, lean, thin …
