rawboned
11rawboned — adj gaunt, thin, thin as a reed or rail, lean, meager, spare, lank, lanky, gangling, gangly; skinny, too skinny to throw a shadow, skin and bones, bony, angular, skeletal; stalky, spindly, spindle shanked, spindle legged; scrawny, scraggy,… …
12rawboned — raw•boned [[t]ˈrɔˈboʊnd[/t]] adj. having the flesh seemingly stretched over a large boned frame • Etymology: 1585–95 …
13lean — I. verb (leaned; leaning) Etymology: Middle English lenen, from Old English hleonian; akin to Old High German hlinēn to lean, Greek klinein, Latin clinare Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. a. to incline, deviate, or bend from a… …
14scrawny — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. underweight, puny, rawboned, bony, meager, lean. See narrowness. Ant., plump, overweight. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lanky, gaunt, lean, skinny; see thin 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a.… …
15thin — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. slender, lean, narrow (see narrowness); watery, weak, di luted; attenuated; faint, dim, threadlike; fine, delicate; poor, lame (as an excuse); flimsy, sheer, filmy. See rarity, weakness,… …
16angular — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Coming to an angle] Syn. sharp cornered, intersecting, crossing, oblique, divaricate, with corners, V shaped, Y shaped, crotched, forked, bent, akimbo, bifurcate(d), crooked, pointed, triangular, rectangular, scraggy,… …
17lean — vb *slant, slope, incline Analogous words: bend, *curve: *turn, deflect, divert, sheer lean adj Lean, spare, lank, lanky, gaunt, rawboned, angular, scrawny, skinny mean thin because of absence of super fluous flesh. Lean stresses the lack of fat… …
18raubeinig — rau|bei|nig 〈Adj.; fig.; umg.〉 in der Art eines Raubeins * * * rau|bei|nig <Adj.> [volksetym. entstellt aus engl. rawboned = klapperdürr]: 1. von, in der Art eines ↑ Raubeins (1), wie ein Raubein geartet. 2. (Ballspiele Jargon) ↑ rau (4)… …
19bony — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. skeletal, stiff; osseous; lank, lean. See hardness, narrowness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Of or like bone] Syn. skeletal, anatomical, osseous, ossified, formative, cartilaginous, horny, hard,… …
20gaunt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. haggard, bony, lean, emaciated. See narrowness. Ant., plump. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. emaciated, scraggy, skinny; see thin 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [GAWNT]… …
