All beanpole synonyms
bean·pole
B b noun beanpole
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- pole — Reginald, 1500–58, English cardinal and last Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury.
- post — power-on self-test
- cane — Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of cane are often used to make furniture, and some types of cane can be crushed and processed to make sugar.
- trellis — a frame or structure of latticework; lattice.
- stick — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- hatrack — a frame, stand, or post having knobs or hooks for hanging hats.
- string bean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
adjective beanpole
- weedy — full of or abounding in weeds.
- sticker — a person or thing that sticks.
- twig — style; fashion.
- lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
- reedy — full of reeds: a reedy marsh.
- skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
- flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- stilt — one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- undernourished — not nourished with sufficient or proper food to maintain or promote health or normal growth.
- scraggy — lean or thin; scrawny.
- lanky — ungracefully thin and rawboned; bony; gaunt: a very tall and lanky man.
- twiggy — of, relating to, or resembling twigs.
- sylphlike — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- lank — (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees.
- meager — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- stalky — abounding in stalks.