Antonyms for skinny
ˈskɪn iskin·ny

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1. skinnyadjective

   confidential information about a topic or person

   "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"

   Antonyms:
   loose, generous, fat

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

   being very thin

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

   Antonyms:
   loose, fat, generous

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

3. skinnyadjective

   of or relating to or resembling skin

   Antonyms:
   generous, fat, loose

   Synonyms:
   penny-pinching, tightly fitting, cheeseparing, tightfitting, boney, tight fitting, underweight, scraggy, scrawny, near, tight-fitting, weedy, close

4. tight-fitting, tightfitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting, skinnyadjective

   fitting snugly

   "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes"

   Antonyms:
   loose, fat, generous

   Synonyms:
   penny-pinching, tightly fitting, cheeseparing, tightfitting, boney, tight fitting, underweight, scraggy, scrawny, near, tight-fitting, weedy, close

5. cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinnyadjective

   giving or spending with reluctance

   "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"

   Antonyms:
   generous, fat, loose

   Synonyms:
   scraggy, near(a), boney, tightlipped, cheeseparing, weedy, snug, penny-pinching, stuffy, faithful, tight-fitting, airless, nigh, tightfitting, close-fitting, underweight, close, good, tightly fitting, tight, approximate, confining, closemouthed, near, tight fitting, nigh(a), unaired, secretive, dear, scrawny, closelipped

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1. skinnyadjective

   Synonyms:
   emaciated, gaunt, rawboned, poor

How to use skinny in a sentence?

1. Elizabeth Hoff:

   You could see many were malnourished, starving. They were skinny, tired, severely distressed. There was no smile on anybody's face, the children I talked to said they had no strength to play.

2. Joseph Bompartito:

   They looked miserable, malnourished, very skinny, very pale with a depressed look on their face.

3. Tara Reid:

   I got lipo because even though I was skinny, I wanted — I’m not going to lie — a six pack, i had body contouring, but it all went wrong. My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing.

4. Mindy Kaling:

   I never need to be skinny. I don't want to be skinny, i'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it.

5. Dion Baynard:

   I started thinking to myself, if you want to be skinny, you’ve got to do what skinny people do, i noticed that most people riding bicycles were fit, so I went out and got a bicycle.

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