Synonyms of the word bony


BONYBONE - BONED - BONELIKE - BONEY - CADAVEROUS - EMACIATED - GAUNT - HAGGARD - LEAN - OSSEOUS - OSTEAL - PINCHED - SKELETAL - THIN - WASTED

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.

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  • n. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.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.

boney

  • adj. Alternative spelling of bony.

cadaverous

  • adj. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.

emaciated

  • adj. Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of emaciate.

gaunt

  • adj. lean, angular, and bony.
  • adj. haggard, drawn, and emaciated.
  • adj. bleak, barren, and desolate.

haggard

  • adj. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.
  • adj. Wild or untamed.
  • n. (dialect, Isle of Man, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
  • n. (falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
  • n. (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
  • n. (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
  • n. (obsolete) A hag.

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…

osseous

  • adj. Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.

osteal

  • adj. bony.

pinched

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of pinch.
  • adj. Very thin.
  • adj. (of a person or their face) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
  • adj. Compressed.

skeletal

  • adj. of, or relating to the skeleton.
  • adj. haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt.

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.

wasted

  • adj. Not profitably used.
  • adj. Ravaged or deteriorated.
  • adj. Emaciated and haggard.
  • adj. (slang) very drunk or stoned.
  • adj. (medicine) low weight-for-height (for a person).
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of waste.

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