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101meager — adj 1. scarce, scanty, scant, sparse, exiguous, in short supply, at a premium, not to be had, Inf. scarce as hen s teeth; poor, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting, short, short of, not enough, too little; bare, slight, skimpy, scrimpy;… …
102poor — adj 1. destitute, poverty stricken, impoverished, penurious, impecunious, beggared, pauperized; penniless, indigent, poor as Job s turkey, needy, necessitous, bad off, badly off; pinched, straitened, distressed, Inf. strapped, Inf. up against it …
103scraggy — adj 1. scrawny, thin, thin as a reed or rail, weedy, lean, slender, stalky; skinny, too skinny to throw a shadow, skin and bones, gaunt, rawboned, angular, bony, skeletal; meager, spare, lank, lanky, gangly, gangling, spindly, spindle shanked,… …
104spare — v 1. save, leave uninjured, leave alone, live and let live; free, liberate, redeem, rescue. 2. be considerate of, prevent, forestall, deliver from; (all with against or from) safeguard, protect, guard, shield, defend, shelter. 3. withhold,… …
105starveling — adj 1. starving, very hungry, famished, dying for food; undernourished, underfed, ill fed; starved looking, pinched, withered, shriveled, wizened; emaciate, emaciated, wasted, attenuated, Pathol. tabetic, Pathol. tabid; thin, thin as a reed or… …
106thin — adj 1. thinnish, lean, spare, attenuate, attenuated; narrow, slender, slim, gracile, svelte, lithe, graceful; slight, wispy, wisplike; skinny, twiggy, thin as a reed or rail, narrow as an arrow, thin as six o clock, slender as a thread, too… …
107undersized — adj 1. underdeveloped, atrophied, stunted, truncated, stubby, squat, undersize; dwarfish, runtish, runty, pygmy, Med. nanoid; short, little, small, Chiefly Scot. wee, miniscule, minikin, diminutive, Scot. cutly, tiny, elfin, bantam, slight; All… …
108underweight — adj skinny, skin and bones, fleshless, gaunt, bony, rawboned, skeletal; spindly, spindle shanked, twiggy, gangling, scrawny, scraggy, undersized; undernourished, underfed, half starved, starved look ing; hollow cheeked, pinched, shrunken, wasted …
109angular — [adj1] bent akimbo, bifurcate, cornered, crooked, crossing, crotched, divaricate, forked, intersecting, jagged, oblique, sharpcornered, skewed, slanted, staggered, V shaped, Y shaped, zigzag; concept 486 Ant. straight angular [adj2] thin,… …
110gaunt — [adj] skinny angular, anorexic, attenuated, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lank, lean, like a bag of bones*, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, rawboned, scraggy,… …
