Definition: having bones especially many or prominent bones
Usage: a bony shad fillet; her bony wrist; bony fish
Similar words: bone
Definition: consisting of or made up of bone
Usage: a bony substance; the bony framework of the body
Similar words: boned
Definition: having bones as specified
Usage: his lanky long-boned body
Similar words: bonelike
Definition: resembling bone
Usage: a bonelike tumor
Similar words: strong-boned
Definition: having strong bones
Synonyms: haggard, skeletal, cadaverous, bony, emaciated, gaunt, wasted, pinched
Definition: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Usage: 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
Definition: lacking excess flesh
Usage: you can't be too rich or too thin; Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare