| ADJECTIVE | pert | skeletal | of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton |
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| all | skeletal, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| Sounds | skeh'lahtahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton. | |
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| Spanish | esquelético | |
| Catalan | esquelètic | |
| Nouns | skeleton | the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal |
| Meaning | Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold. | |
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| Example | "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys" | |
| Synonyms | cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted | |
| 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 | |
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