skin and bones

Noun

Meaning

a person who is unusually thin and scrawny

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

gaunt bony skinny lanky scrawny scrag thin person thin wasted skeletal starved attenuated withered cadaverous scraggy

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Antonyms

tubby elephantine large full heavy chubby

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Hypernyms

individual person soul mortal somebody someone

Hyponyms

spindleshanks spindlelegs

Examples

Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones. Jack Gleeson

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. Alice Hoffman

I told myself before the game, 'he's made of skin and bones just like everyone else. Tarcisio Burgnich

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything. Barry Lyga

Skin and bones and a little dirt between. Finnish Proverb

Gelatin is mostly derived from skin and bones and connective tissue. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

skin alive skin and blister skin and bone skin and grin skin anomaly skin art