Synonyms for skeletal
ˈskɛl ɪ tlskele·tal

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1. 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, emaciated

   Antonyms:
   fat

2. bony, 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, pointless

   Antonyms:
   fat

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1. List of paraphrases for "skeletal":

   skeleton, bone, bony

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1. Liran Carmel:

   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.

2. Johanna Satekge:

   It was hard to be diagnosed at that time. You used to see just images of skeletal people, my niece, who I was raising, would sometimes come home from primary school, crying: 'How is mama HIV positive? Is she going to die?'.

3. Nathan Sharps:

   This decreases the chance of muscular-skeletal injury. We look at the soldier as an individual ecosystem. We’re not just looking at what they cannot do right now, but also at what challenges they are going to face 20 years from now.

4. Teresa Fernández-Crespo:

   The new analysis of the human skeletal remains from La Hoya reminds us very forcefully that the prehistoric past was not always the peaceful place it is sometimes made out to be.

5. Thomas Frazer:

   This type of work really matters, corals selected for restoration might, for example, be more resistant to warmer ocean temperatures and bleaching, exhibit skeletal properties that are able to withstand more intense wave energy, or traits that might make them more resistant to disease or other environmental stressors.