skeletally
- adverb
- /ˈskɛlɪtəli/
:
esqueléticamente
- After months of illness, she became skeletally thin and lacked the energy to get out of bed.
- skeletally thin
Examples
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I see her slide two of the tiny knives into her own gut, and soft pieces of the flab of a skeletally skinny person drop like meringue to the floor until a kind of corpselike rib cage bares itself.
Fiction book (2000) -
She is no longer robust, as she once was, but bent and skeletally thin.
Academic text (2001) -
And thin-faced Sayf, always skeletally thin, more than a little obsessed-looking.
Fiction book (2002) -
She was skeletally thin; her skin was always in a state of dull eruptions; red spidery veins on her legs always seemed to Beatrice to be the tracks of a slow disease.
Fiction book (1996) -
The stray dog was so skeletally thin that its ribs were visible through its fur.
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He appeared skeletally thin, with sunken cheeks and protruding bones showing through his skin.
Antonyms
How Thin
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Skeletally comes from skeleton, from an old Greek word meaning 'dried body'. Because a skeleton shows only bones, skeletally can describe someone very thin or 'like a skeleton', with bones showing through the skin.