bony

Speech parts

1. bony - Adjective

2. bony - Adjective Satellite

3. Bony - Proper noun

Meaning

Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

Having large or prominent bones.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

skinny underweight haggard boney gaunt thin spare lean skeletal attenuated scrawny lanky scraggy cadaverous emaciated
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Antonyms

boneless husky tubby elephantine bunchy sylvan
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Phrases with the word

lean and bony bony case of the brain bony structure bony orbit bony vertebrate bony process

Derivatives

bonier boniest

Anagrams

NOYB

Examples

Does not an ingenuous contact with Kantian thinking, with philosophical thinking in general, contain the risk of exposing a young consciousness to a violent and sudden aging? What of a youthful will to know is preserved in a philosophy that makes one dizzy with its bony spiraling turns of the screw? Peter Sloterdijk

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom. Gwyneth Paltrow

Better a bony agreement than a fat disagreement. Finnish Proverb

a bony shad fillet Source: Internet

her bony wrist Source: Internet

bony fish Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Bonvillain Bonwick bonxie bony bream bony canal of ear bony case of the brain