What are the antonyms for SKELETAL?
- thick, thicken, healthy, burly, flabby, inspissate, fat, plump, heavy, hale, fit, rich, husky, full, brawny, soft, beefy, overweight, hearty.
Synonyms for SKELETAL
- better,
- rattleboned,
- broad-brush,
- shriveled,
- penniless,
- 101,
- light,
- shrivelled,
- like a bag of bones,
- underweight,
- consumptive,
- tired,
- corpselike,
- broad,
- starved,
- devastated,
- undernourished,
- ghostly,
- anatomical,
- compound fracture,
- edited,
- scraggiest,
- elaborate,
- skin and bones,
- adenoidal,
- skeletonlike,
- extensive,
- weedy,
- Weazeny,
- thin,
- break,
- slender,
- half-starved,
- diminished,
- penurious,
- lean,
- formalistic,
- flat,
- featherweight,
- Tabetic,
- anatomic,
- pale,
- twiggy,
- wasted,
- tenuous,
- sticker,
- wiry,
- flimsy,
- malnourished,
- deathly,
- rawboned,
- reedy,
- nasal,
- worn,
- gaunt,
- cadaveric,
- atrophied,
- ghastly,
- lanky,
- Constructional,
- otiose,
- hollow-cheeked,
- arthritic,
- spare,
- tight,
- Tabid,
- skinny,
- anorectic,
- beanstalk,
- descriptive,
- bony,
- slim,
- peaky,
- starveling,
- fused,
- willowy,
- raddled,
- impecunious,
- twiglike,
- skeletal,
- shrunken,
- blasted,
- architectural,
- blow-by-blow,
- wispy,
- Macilent,
- withered,
- flat-chested,
- spindly,
- structural,
- boney,
- pallid,
- rangy,
- formational,
- detailed,
- emaciate,
- gangly,
- puny,
- ruined,
- skeleton,
- redundant,
- broken,
- all skin and bones,
- famished,
- cadaverous,
- sparse,
- scraggy,
- emaciated,
- compositional,
- ravaged,
- wizened,
- hollow-eyed,
- Raw-boned,
- constitutional,
- costal,
- meagre,
- pinched,
- poler,
- wraithlike,
- thin as a rail,
- desolated,
- Fleshless,
- thin as rail,
- wasting,
- spectral,
- ashen,
- gangling,
- lumbar,
- bag of bones,
- like a rail,
- Phthisic,
- pointless,
- skin-and-bones,
- gawky,
- scrawny,
- organic,
- underfed,
- anorexic,
- osseous,
- Spindling,
- fine,
- Stalky,
- pelvic,
- meager,
- thinner,
- exsanguinous,
- narrow,
- hard up,
- jejune,
- jointed,
- angular,
- constructural,
- spidery,
- lank,
- slight,
- peaked,
- be (all) skin and bone(s),
- superfluous,
- basic,
- general,
- skin-and-bone,
- double-jointed,
- careworn,
- poor,
- undersized,
- attenuated,
- haggard,
- system,
- tectonic,
- drawn,
- Marantic.
Usage Examples for SKELETAL
-
By that he meant that it was his purpose to make a prolonged study of their skeletal structures the basis of his grouping, following the lines which Cuvier, Owen, and he himself had pursued so successfully in the case of the fossil remains of vertebrates. - "Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work" by P. Chalmers Mitchell
-
Using the relatively sturdy skeletal branches foot- and hand- holds Tharn began to climb up that rounded wall. - "The Return of Tharn" by Howard Carleton Browne
