All fleshless synonyms

adjective fleshless

• thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
• angular — Angular things have shapes that seem to contain a lot of straight lines and sharp points.
• attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
• attenuated — An attenuated object is unusually long and thin.
• beanpole — If you call someone a beanpole, you are criticizing them because you think that they are extremely tall and thin.
• beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
• bony — Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones.
• cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
• delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
• emaciated — Abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.
• ethereal — Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
• 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).
• fragile — brittle
• gangling — to move awkwardly or ungracefully: A tall, stiff-jointed man gangled past.
• gangly — gangling.
• gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
• haggard — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
• lanky — ungracefully thin and rawboned; bony; gaunt: a very tall and lanky man.
• lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
• lightweight — light in weight.
• meager — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
• narrow — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
• peaked — Also, on-peak. being at the point of maximum frequency, intensity, use, etc.; busiest or most active: Hotel rooms are most expensive during the peak travel seasons.
• pinched — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• pole — Reginald, 1500–58, English cardinal and last Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury.
• puny — of less than normal size and strength; weak.
• rangy — (of animals or people) slender and long-limbed.
• rarefied — extremely high or elevated; lofty; exalted: the rarefied atmosphere of a scholarly symposium.
• rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
• reedy — full of reeds: a reedy marsh.
• rickety — likely to fall or collapse; shaky: a rickety chair.
• scraggy — lean or thin; scrawny.
• scrawny — excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck.
• shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
• skeletal — of, relating to, or like a skeleton.
• skinny — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
• slender — having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length: a slender post.
• slight — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
• slim — slender, as in girth or form; slight in build or structure.
• slinky — characterized by or proceeding with slinking or stealthy movements.
• small — of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box.
• spare — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
• spindly — long or tall, thin, and usually frail: The colt wobbled on its spindly legs.
• stalky — abounding in stalks.
• stick — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
• 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.
• subtle — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
• threadlike — a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, especially when composed of two or more filaments twisted together.