Need another word that means the same as “skinny”? Find 23 synonyms and 30 related words for “skinny” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Skinny” are: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy, tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, thin, angular, gaunt, skin-and-bones, emaciated, skeletal, pinched, undernourished, underfed
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “skinny” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| angular | Having angles or an angular shape. Adam s angular black handwriting. |
| boney | Having bones especially many or prominent bones. |
| bony | Being very thin. A bony shad fillet. |
| cheeseparing | Giving or spending with reluctance. Our cheeseparing administration. |
| close | Fitting closely but comfortably. You re very close about your work aren t you. |
| emaciated | Abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food. She was so emaciated she could hardly stand. |
| gaunt | Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold. A tall gaunt woman in black. |
| near | Located on the nearside of a vehicle. A very near thing. |
| penny-pinching | Giving or spending with reluctance. |
| pinched | Sounding as if the nose were pinched. Her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her. |
| scraggly | Lacking neatness or order. A scraggly little path to the door. |
| scraggy | Being very thin. An old man with a scraggy beard. |
| scrawny | (of a person or animal) unattractively thin and bony. A long scrawny neck. |
| skeletal | Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton. A nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys. |
| skin-and-bones | Consisting of or made up of bone. |
| thin | Relatively thin in consistency or low in density not viscous. A thin layer of paint. |
| tight fitting | Securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid. |
| tight-fitting | Fitting snugly. |
| tightfitting | Fitting snugly. |
| underfed | Not getting adequate food. A horse that is underfed is likely to be dull and lethargic. |
| undernourished | Having insufficient food or other substances for good health and condition. Badly undernourished. |
| underweight | Below a weight considered normal or desirable. The company is still underweight in Japan. |
| weedy | Being very thin. A weedy path led to the gate. |
| angular | Having angles or an angular shape. Her angular face. |
| bone | Remove the bones from. Ask your butcher to bone the turkey for you. |
| bony | Of or like bone. He held up his bony fingers. |
| confined | Not free to move about. Her fear of confined spaces. |
| constricted | Inhibited; restricted. A constricted view of life. |
| desperate | Desperately determined. A desperate cry for help. |
| elongated | Having notably more length than width; being long and slender. Picasso s elongated Don Quixote. |
| gangling | Tall and thin. A gangling youth with a trace of down on his cheeks. |
| gangly | Tall and thin. |
| lanky | (of a person) ungracefully thin and tall. A lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man. |
| lean | Cause to lean to the side. She leaned over the banister. |
| lissom | Gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease. The kind of outfit that should be left to lissom teenagers. |
| malnourished | Suffering from malnutrition. |
| narrow | A narrow channel connecting two larger areas of water. The selection was narrowed. |
| orphan | Make a child an orphan. He was left an orphan as a small boy. |
| pointed | Having a sharpened or tapered tip or end. His face tapers to a pointed chin. |
| poverty | The state of being extremely poor. Thousands of families are living in abject poverty. |
| rod | A fishing rod. The largest carp ever caught on rod and line in Britain. |
| slim | A course or period of slimming. Companies will extract all possible productivity gains from their slimmer workforces before adding people. |
| square | A thing that is square or approximately square in shape. Saturn squares the Sun on the 17th. |
| starving | Suffering from lack of food. The world s starving children. |
| stiff | In a stiff manner. Ordinary working stiffs in respectable offices. |
| tall | A garment size for a tall person. A tall glass of iced tea. |
| thin | Make thin or thinner. Tall thin lettering. |
| tight | Of a community or other group of people having close relations tight knit. Tight skirts. |
| underweight | Apply too little weight to. The company is still underweight in Japan. |
| unhealthy | Detrimental to health. His skin looked pale and unhealthy. |
| width | Wide range or extent. The width of experience required for these positions. |
| wiry | Of or relating to wire. His wiry black hair. |
| withered | Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. A girl with a withered arm. |
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