skeletal
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
skeletal
adj 1: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton;
"the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal
muscles"
2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men
and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small
pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim
concentration" [syn: {bony}, {cadaverous}, {emaciated},
{gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal}, {wasted}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "skeletal":
attenuated, bony, cadaverous, corpselike, emacerated, emaciate,
emaciated, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt,
gawky, haggard, hollow-eyed, jejune, lank, lanky, lean,
lean-fleshed, lean-looking, marantic, marasmic, meager, peaked,
peaky, pinched, poor, puny, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled,
skeleton, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, starved,
starveling, tabetic, tabid, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy,
underfed, undernourished, undersized, underweight, wasted, weazeny,
withered, wizened, wraithlike
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