All skeletal synonyms
skel·e·tal
S s adj skeletal
- 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).
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- 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.
- formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- anatomic — of or relating to anatomy
- anatomical — Anatomical means relating to the structure of the bodies of people and animals.
- lank — (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees.
- formational — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
adjective skeletal
- emaciated — Abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.
- exsanguinous — Alternative form of exsanguious.
- weedy — full of or abounding in weeds.
- deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
- attenuated — An attenuated object is unusually long and thin.
- wasted — not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents.
- osseous — composed of, containing, or resembling bone; bony.
- fleshless — Without flesh, lacking flesh.