ADJECTIVE | all | scrawny, scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, skinny, underweight, weedy | being very thin |
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all | scrawny, scrubby, stunted | inferior in size or quality |
Sounds | skrao'niy | |
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Rhymes | abalone ... Zuni: 221 rhymes with niy... |
Meaning | Very thin. | |
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Example | "a long scrawny neck" | |
Synonyms | scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, 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 | scrawniness | the bodily property of lacking flesh |
Meaning | inferior in size or quality. | |
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Example | "scrawny cattle" | |
Synonyms | scrubby, stunted | |
Broader | inferior | Of low or inferior quality |
Spanish | escuálido, raquítico | |
Catalan | raquític, renoc, renocat | |
Nouns | scrawniness | the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality |
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