bony English

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bony Adjective

— If something is bony, it resembles or have the appearance of a bone.

— If a person is bony, they have little flesh.

bony

— adjective (= emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold emaciated bony hands a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys eyes were haggard and cavernous small pinched faces kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

— adjective (= boney) having bones especially many or prominent bones a bony shad fillet her bony wrist bony fish

— adjective (= osseous) composed of or containing bone osseous tissue

Synonyms bony synonyms

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bony English » English

osseous

gaunt

skinny

lean

emaciated

scrawny

boney

bone

wasted

thin

skeletal

osteal

angular

spare

scraggy

sclerous

raw-boned

pinched

lanky

haggard

cadaverous

tough

tall and thin

spirited

slim

skin

rawboned

raw boned

plucky

meager

hard to deal with

consisting of bones

boned

barren

Topics bony topics

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Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Fish

• What words describe fish?
  bony finned jawed jawless lobe-finned poisonous snouted

Person Body

Bone, joint

• What general words refer to a bone?
  bone bony

States Big Thick

Thin person

• What words describe someone who is thin and not attractive?
  skinny bony scrawny scraggy angular