skeleton

Speech parts

1. skeleton - Noun

2. skeleton - Adjective

3. skeleton - Verb

Meaning

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.

A very thin or lean person.

The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.

The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

frame structure draft framework outline backbone corpse carcass remains bones skeleton in the cupboard dead body skeletal system underframe hulk
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Antonyms

caprice full base basis core accident
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Hypernyms

system minimum scandal outrage lower limit supporting structure

Hyponyms

chassis hoop exoskeleton endoskeleton

Phrases with the word

skeleton in the closet like a skeleton facial skeleton pharyngeal skeleton skeleton frame skeleton in cupboard

Examples

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Virginia Woolf

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. Audre Lorde

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. George Bernard Shaw

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. Henry Miller

There is a skeleton in every house. Latin Proverb

Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. Traditional Proverb

Close letter words and terms

skeletomotor skeletomuscular skeletomusculature skeleton at the feast skeleton crew skeleton fork fern