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Synonyms 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"

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

    Antonyms:
    fat, superior

  2. scrawny, scrubby, stuntedadjective

    inferior in size or quality

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

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

    Antonyms:
    superior, fat

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. scrawnyadjective

    Synonyms:
    [colloquial, U. S.] thin, lank, meagre, scraggy, SCRANNY

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  1. scrawnyadjective

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

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  1. List of paraphrases for "scrawny":

    skinny, lean

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How to use scrawny in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. Malcolm Muggeridge:

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

  3. Susan Adie:

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

  4. 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.


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