Synonyms of the word

boney

• adj. Alternative spelling of bony.

bone

• n. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up…
• n. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
• n. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
• n. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
• n. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
• n. (figuratively) The framework of anything.
• n. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
• n. (US, informal) A dollar.
• n. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
• n. (slang) Dominoes or dice.
• adj. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
• v. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
• v. To fertilize with bone.
• v. To put whalebone into.
• v. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
• v. (vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring…
• v. (usually with "up") To study.
• v. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
• v. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
• v. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level…
• n. (slang) Clipping of trombone.

boned

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bone.
• adj. (in combination) Having some specific type of bone.
• adj. (art) Of computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.
• adj. (slang) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent…
• adj. (slang) Broken.

bonelike

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of bone.

bony

• adj. resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
• adj. full of bones.
• adj. with little flesh; skinny, thin.
• adj. having prominent bones.

lean

• v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
• v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
• v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
• v. To hang outwards.
• v. To press against.
• n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
• adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
• adj. (of meat) having little fat.
• adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
• adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
• adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
• adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
• v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
• v. To conceal.
• n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

scraggy

• adj. Rough and irregular; jagged.
• adj. Lean or thin, scrawny.

scrawny

• adj. Thin, malnourished and weak.

skinny

• adj. (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
• adj. (informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
• adj. Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
• n. (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
• n. A state of nakedness; nudity.
• n. (informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.
• n. A skinny being.

thin

• adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
• adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
• adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
• adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
• adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
• adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
• adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
• adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
• n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
• n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
• v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
• v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
• v. To dilute.
• v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
• adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

underweight

• adj. Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
• adj. Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
• adj. (finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
• n. The state or quality of being underweight.
• v. (transitive) To underestimate the weight of.
• v. (transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.

weedy

• adj. (Britain) Small and weak; scraggy; ungainly.
• adj. Of or relating to weeds; consisting of weeds.
• adj. Abounding with weeds.
• adj. (botany) Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically…