Antonyms for scrawny
ˈskrɔ niscrawny

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1. scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedyadjective

   being very thin

   "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

   Antonyms:
   fat, superior

   Synonyms:
   cheeseparing, stunted, tightly fitting, weedy, skinny, tight fitting, tight-fitting, penny-pinching, boney, tightfitting, underweight, scrubby, scraggy, jagged, close, near, bony, jaggy

2. scrawny, scrubby, stuntedadjective

   inferior in size or quality

   "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

   Antonyms:
   superior, fat

   Synonyms:
   scrubby, scrabbly, boney, stunted, skinny, underweight, scraggy, weedy

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1. scrawnyadjective

   Synonyms:
   angular, lank, meager, scraggy, bony, rawboned, gaunt

How to use scrawny in a sentence?

1. Pierre Png:

   I was made to go under a very strict diet and to train under a personal trainer. I am, by nature, on the scrawny side, i had to bulk up within a short time -- three weeks.

2. Dana Hatch:

   I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims.

3. Malcolm Muggeridge:

   Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

4. Susan Adie:

   We are going to see more scrawny bears in the long term, directly linked to a loss of sea ice.

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