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Synonyms for skeletal
ˈskɛl ɪ tlskele·tal
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Princeton's WordNet
skeletaladjective
of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton
"the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
Synonyms:
cadaverous, wasted, pinched, bony, haggard, gaunt, emaciatedAntonyms:
fatbony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wastedadjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
Synonyms:
pinched, haggard, atrophied, in straitened circumstances(p), boney, osteal, diminished, drawn, nasal, senseless, gaunt, adenoidal, squandered, purposeless, penurious, hard up, otiose, penniless, osseous, superfluous, cadaveric, cadaverous, careworn, wasted, raddled, bony, impecunious, worn, emaciated, pointlessAntonyms:
fat
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4053 | bone | |
#4609 | drawn | |
#7827 | worn | |
#12442 | wasted | |
#13647 | skeleton | |
#15234 | nasal | |
#17621 | skeletal | |
#17833 | diminished | |
#18270 | pointless | |
#31681 | haggard | |
#35057 | senseless | |
#35699 | superfluous | |
#40094 | bony | |
#44263 | boney | |
#45025 | pinched | |
#49528 | gaunt | |
#54883 | squandered | |
#75520 | penniless | |
#89296 | emaciated | |
#112633 | osseous | |
#114369 | cadaveric | |
#148311 | purposeless | |
#149128 | atrophied | |
#194565 | cadaverous | |
#268536 | impecunious | |
#302251 | careworn | |
#313943 | penurious |
How to use skeletal in a sentence?
But even more significant is that we have more freedom with the design... parts can look more organic, more skeletal.
We provide the first reconstruction of the skeletal anatomy of Denisovans, in many ways, Denisovans resembled Neanderthals, but in some traits, they resembled us, and in others they were unique.
Laundrie’s body was described as skeletal ‘remains’ and the FBI needed dental records to identify him. The human body can withstand water and wildlife better than paper.
Connecticut State Archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni:
Hopefully the skeletal remains will key us in.
The horse may have been a little bit out of the barn here in terms of what they’re looking at, girls tend to mature earlier . . . the girls were even more fixed in their position in the skeletal world by the time they started, whereas the boys were perhaps a little more malleable.
Translations for skeletal
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- esquelèticCatalan, Valencian
- kosterníCzech
- Skelett-, Knochen-, skelettalGerman
- esqueléticoSpanish
- squelettiqueFrench
- scheletricoItalian
- esqueléticoPortuguese
- bomemikVolapük
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