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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Skeletal \Skel"e*tal\, a.
   Pertaining to the skeleton.
   [1913 Webster]
    
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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