🐕 Very thin 🧣 With ridges

ribby

8.0

Having ribs that show because a person or animal is very thin

adjective
/ˈrɪbi/

: huesudo

She noticed the ribby structure of the old man as he walked down the street.

Examples

She looked diminished, ribby, white, and unexpectedly hairy.

Fiction book (1998)
After a long illness, he emerged from the hospital looking weak and ribby.
See that now I no longer have ribby ribs because I've spread?
The thin cat had a ribby appearance, making its bones almost visible under its skin.

Synonyms

ribbed

vsribby

1 4.4

A surface with raised lines you can feel, like on a sweater or glass

describes bones showing from thinness rather than surface ridges

rawboned

vsribby

1 8.3

A very thin person or animal with long arms and legs and a narrow face

focuses on chest bones showing from thinness rather than general leanness

boney

vsribby

3.4

Thin so you can see or feel the bones

shows chest bones visible due to lack of flesh

riblike

vsribby

4.9

Shaped like a long thin curved bone at the side of the chest

is about bones showing because of thinness rather than just shape

costate

vsribby

Specialized

9.9

Having raised lines like ribs on a shell or leaf

relates to bones visible because of thinness not surface textures

Antonyms

plump

44 2.7

A little fat and rounded in a healthy, attractive way

fleshy

20 3.8

Plump and soft on the body, like thick cheeks or arms

How Bony

emaciated

8 7.8

ribby

8.0

bony

30 2.5

skinny

298 1.3

thin

314 1.0

Surface Forms

ribby positive

Morphology

ribby = rib (transparent) = rib + rib + y

Formed by the productive adjective-making suffix '-y' from 'rib', meaning 'having prominent ribs', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Ribby comes from the word rib ('one of the bones at the side of the chest') plus the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'having'. So a ribby animal is thin with its ribs showing.