- skinny as a rail
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Especially of a person, very skinny.
At fifteen, he was already six feet tall and skinny as a rail.
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skinny — [adj] very thin angular, bony, emaciated, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, like a rail*, malnourished, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skin and bone*, slender, spare, twiggy, undernourished, underweight; concepts 490,491 Ant. chubby, fat, heavy,… … New thesaurus
skinny — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. thin, lean, slim, slender. See narrowness. Ant., fat, plump. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lean, gaunt, slender; see thin 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. thin, slender, lean, skeletal, emaciated … English dictionary for students
skinny — adj 1. lean, slender, lank, thin, thin as a rail, attenuate; bony, lanky, gangling, gangly, Inf. weedy; gaunt, haggard, emaciated, meager, spare, scrawny, fleshless; scraggy, spindly, spindle shanked, skeletal, bare boned, raw boned, skin and… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
meager — adj 1. scarce, scanty, scant, sparse, exiguous, in short supply, at a premium, not to be had, Inf. scarce as hen s teeth; poor, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting, short, short of, not enough, too little; bare, slight, skimpy, scrimpy;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
poor — adj 1. destitute, poverty stricken, impoverished, penurious, impecunious, beggared, pauperized; penniless, indigent, poor as Job s turkey, needy, necessitous, bad off, badly off; pinched, straitened, distressed, Inf. strapped, Inf. up against it … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
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