Synonyms of the word skinny


SKINNYBONEY - CHEESEPARING - CLOSE - INFO - INFORMATION - LEAN - NEAR - PENNY-PINCHING - SCRAGGY - SCRAWNY - STINGY - THIN - TIGHT - TIGHT-FITTING - UNDERWEIGHT - UNGENEROUS - WEEDY

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.

boney

  • adj. Alternative spelling of bony.

cheeseparing

  • v. present participle of cheesepare.
  • adj. Niggardly, stingy.
  • n. A small fragment or sliver.

close

  • v. (physical) To remove a gap.
  • v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
  • v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
  • v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
  • n. An end or conclusion.
  • n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
  • n. A grapple in wrestling.
  • n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
  • n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
  • adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
  • adj. Narrow; confined.
  • adj. At a little distance; near.
  • adj. Intimate; well-loved.
  • adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
  • adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
  • adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
  • adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
  • adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
  • adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
  • adj. Short.
  • adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
  • adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
  • adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
  • adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
  • adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
  • adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
  • adj. Marked, evident.
  • n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
  • n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
  • n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
  • n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
  • n. A cathedral close.
  • n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

info

  • n. (informal) Short form of the word information.

information

  • n. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
  • n. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
  • n. (law) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform…
  • n. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
  • n. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
  • n. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
  • n. (computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its…
  • n. (Christianity) Divine inspiration.
  • n. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
  • n. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
  • n. As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
  • n. (IT industry jargon) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

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…

near

  • adj. Physically close.
  • adj. Closely connected or related.
  • adj. Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
  • adj. Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
  • adj. So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
  • adj. (of an event) Approaching.
  • adj. Approximate, almost.
  • adj. (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
  • adj. (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.
  • adj. (obsolete, slang) Stingy; parsimonious.
  • adv. Having a small intervening distance with regard to something.
  • adv. (colloquial) nearly.
  • prep. Close to, in close proximity to.
  • prep. Close to in time.
  • v. To come closer to; to approach.
  • n. The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.

penny-pinching

  • adj. reluctant to spend money; close-fisted.
  • n. reluctance to spend money; thrift or parsimony.
  • n. Instance of extreme economy.

scraggy

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

scrawny

  • adj. Thin, malnourished and weak.

stingy

  • adj. Stinging; able to sting.
  • adj. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
  • adj. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

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.

tight

  • adj. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
  • adj. (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass…
  • adj. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
  • adj. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
  • adj. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
  • adj. (slang, British (regional)) Mean; unfair; unkind.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
  • adj. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
  • adj. (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
  • adj. (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
  • adv. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
  • adv. Soundly.
  • v. (obsolete) To tighten.

tight-fitting

  • adj. (of clothing) Snug, skintight.

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.

ungenerous

  • adj. Not generous; stingy.

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…

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