lankness
11lank — lankly, adv. lankness, n. /langk/, adj., lanker, lankest. 1. (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees. 2. (of hair) straight and limp; without spring or curl. 3. lean; gaunt; thin. [bef. 1000; ME lanc, OE hlanc; akin… …
12lantern jaws — Synonyms and related words: boniness, fleshlessness, frailness, gauntness, gawkiness, haggardness, hatchet face, lankiness, lankness, leanness, meagerness, paperiness, peakedness, poorness, puniness, scrawniness, skin and bones, skinniness,… …
13underweight — Synonyms and related words: avoirdupois, bantamweight, beef, beefiness, boniness, bony, deadweight, fatness, featherweight, flat, flat chested, fleshless, fleshlessness, frailness, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gauntness, gawkiness, gawky, gravity,… …
14lank — lank1 adjective 1》 (of hair) long, limp, and straight. 2》 lanky. Derivatives lankly adverb lankness noun Origin OE hlanc thin , of Gmc origin. lank2 adjective S. African informal 1》 very numerous or …
15emaciation — n. Leanness, lankness, meagreness, wasting away, pining away, tabes, tabefaction …
16thinness — n. 1. Slenderness, slimness, meagreness, leanness, gauntness, emaciation, lankness. 2. Meagreness, poorness, slenderness. 3. Tenuity, fineness, slenderness, delicacy, exiguity. 4. Tenuity, rareness. 5. Rarity, rareness, tenuity, subtilty,… …
17lank — adjective lank hair is thin, straight and unattractive lankly adverb lankness noun (U) …
18emaciation — n 1. gauntness, haggardness, witheredness, shrunkenness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, spareness, skinniness, thinness, leanness, lankness, lankiness, slimness, slenderness, attenuation, tenuity; Psychiatry. anorexia. 2. atrophy, atrophia,… …
19meagerness — n 1. scarceness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, shortness; want, lack, need, stint, scarcity, poverty, paucity; poorness, inadequacy, insufficiency; bareness, slightness, skimpiness, scrimpiness; puniness, paltriness, pettiness, piddlingness,… …
20thinness — n 1. leanness, spareness, attenuation, skinniness; narrowness, slenderness, slimness, gracili ty, gracileness, slightness; gauntness, lankness, lankiness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, scrubbiness, puniness, runtiness, smallness. 2.… …
