| ADJECTIVE | all | boney, bony | having bones especially many or prominent bones |
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| all | boney, scraggy, scraggly, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy | being very thin |
| Sounds | bow'niy | |
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| Rhymes | abalone ... Zuni: 221 rhymes with niy... | |
| Meaning | Having bones especially many or prominent bones. | |
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| Synonym | bony | |
| Narrower | bone | Consisting of or made up of bone |
| boned | Having bones as specified | |
| bonelike | resembling bone | |
| strong-boned | Having strong bones | |
| Opposite | boneless | Without a bone or bones |
| Spanish | huesudo | |
| Catalan | ossut | |
| Nouns | bone | rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates |
| Meaning | Very thin. | |
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| Synonyms | scraggy, scraggly, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy | |
| Broader | thin, lean | lacking excess flesh |
| Spanish | cadavérico, chupado, consumido, delgaducho, demacrada, demacrado, descarnado, enclenque, enjuto, escuálido, esquelético, huesudo, macilenta, macilento, raquítico, seco | |
| Catalan | cadavèric, consumit, demacrat, descarnat, escanyolit, escarransit, esquelètic, magre, ossut, raquític, ressec, sec, xuclat | |
| Nouns | bonyness, boniness | extreme / extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) |
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