skeletal
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6.0
- adjective
- /ˈskɛlɪtəl/
:
demacrado
- Cold horror seizes them as they watch him lift his coat to reveal his skeletal nature.
- skeletal remains
And on the other hand, like, do we really want the people that we've just seen staggering around skeletal and brutalized to come here?
- And on the other hand, like, do we really want the people that we've just seen staggering around skeletal and brutalized to come here?
- But she used to be the skeletal figure with supple breast and a skirt of snakes, two hands like that.
- Christopher Lee was quiet, collected, cordial, skeletal, clerkish.
Examples
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Louie thought a skeletal hand might reach out of the earth to point or beckon.
Fiction book (2000) -
"A little bit of everything," replied the Iceman, staring at the tall, almost skeletal human.
Fiction book (1991) -
As she turns around, we see a skeletal version of her head staring at the camera.
Fiction book (1990) -
And this was the difference between them: he saw hope still, some feeble, skeletal hope, where she saw loss.
Fiction book (1994) -
There were deep shadows under Jake's pale blue eyes, and his face had a skeletal look about it.
Fiction book (1994) -
The branches of the pecan trees were skeletal, like gnarled fingers against the moon.
Fiction book (1991) -
As the trolls surged toward the promise of darkness, a thin, almost skeletal figure entered.
Fiction book (2002) -
Foreign Service positions were cut, leaving many embassies with skeletal public-diplomacy staffs.
Academic text (2003) -
The wood-frame houses were all skeletal remains, so honeycombed with locust tunnels that only stubbornness kept them standing.
Fiction book (1996) -
The stray dog looked skeletal after weeks of wandering without food.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having little body fat and a slim shape
298
1.3
Very thin in a way that looks unhealthy
108
2.5
Thin with little extra fat or money
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4.2
Very thin and weak in a way that looks unhealthy
30
2.5
So thin that you can see the bones under the skin
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5.6
Very thin with almost no fat or muscle
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7.3
Very thin and pale from illness, hunger, or hard times
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7.8
Extremely thin from illness or lack of food with bones showing
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7.0
A very thin person or animal and sometimes a thing that is very worn and broken
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9.1
Very pale and thin, looking like a dead body
1
7.0
Very thin person with little or no fat
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8.3
A very thin person or animal with long arms and legs and a narrow face
1
6.0
Very thin in a way that looks like a small branch
1
5.2
Dry and wrinkled because it has lost water
Very thin and weak because of illness or lack of use
Thin so you can see or feel the bones
Relating to bone or made of bone
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.8
A body part attached to bones that pulls them to move the body, often with stripes
- Specialized
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4.6
A set of bones that supports and gives shape to a person or animal
- Specialized
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5.8
Inside support that gives a building or machine its shape and strength
How Thin
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Skeletal comes from the Greek skeletos, meaning 'dried up', and is the same root as skeleton. That's why skeletal can also mean very thin, as if someone or something is almost only 'bones'.