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Synonyms for skinny
ˈskɪn iskin·ny
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Princeton's WordNet
skinnyadjective
confidential information about a topic or person
"he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"
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, tight fitting, tight-fitting, penny-pinching, boney, tightfitting, underweight, scrubby, scraggy, jagged, close, near, bony, scrawny, jaggyskinnyadjective
of or relating to or resembling skin
Synonyms:
penny-pinching, tightly fitting, cheeseparing, tightfitting, boney, tight fitting, underweight, scraggy, scrawny, near, tight-fitting, weedy, closetight-fitting, tightfitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting, skinnyadjective
fitting snugly
"a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes"
Synonyms:
penny-pinching, tightly fitting, cheeseparing, tightfitting, boney, tight fitting, underweight, scraggy, scrawny, near, tight-fitting, weedy, closecheeseparing, 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"
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
Editors Contribution
blubber
Submitted by rinat on August 20, 2019spinky
spine, without muscles.
what a spinky kid. hope he doesn’t get blown away or knocked over.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
skinnyadjective
Synonyms:
lean, poor, thin, lank, shrunk, emaciated, shrivelled, fallen away
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#155 | good | |
#735 | close | |
#989 | near | |
#3613 | dear | |
#3986 | tight | |
#4349 | thin | |
#6310 | slim | |
#8049 | approximate | |
#8525 | lean | |
#10349 | faithful | |
#12952 | skinny | |
#28454 | jagged | |
#29011 | snug | |
#31576 | delgado | |
#33696 | nigh | |
#40094 | bony | |
#40528 | secretive | |
#42060 | meager | |
#44263 | boney | |
#47876 | stuffy | |
#51173 | confining | |
#56077 | underweight | |
#57694 | stunted | |
#67860 | meagre | |
#73342 | airless | |
#76113 | weedy | |
#95082 | scrawny | |
#109298 | scrubby | |
#155030 | unaired | |
#166140 | jaggy |
How to use skinny in a sentence?
They looked miserable, malnourished, very skinny, very pale with a depressed look on their face.
Failing to secure an indictment when a police officer shoots and kills an unarmed, skinny, naked teenager, who the officer outweighed by over 100 pounds, is a failure of will by the district attorney, and calls in to question the entire grand jury process in cases involving police misconduct.
Maybe one day they'll make a movie about a skinny white lady who invented a mop. ... Of course a black girl would have to invent the cure for cancer before they even give her a TV movie.
We gave the mice( what amounted to) a McDonald's diet. The normal mice got obese and the ones without ALK remained skinny.
My frustration is that we could've passed a very skinny deal that dealt with some of the most pressing issues.
Translations for skinny
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- نحيفArabic
- худы́Belarusian
- мъ̀ршавBulgarian
- magreCatalan, Valencian
- hubenýCzech
- schlankGerman
- delgado, flacoSpanish
- لاغرPersian
- laiha, luisevaFinnish
- maigreFrench
- רָזֶה, רזהHebrew
- पतलाHindi
- kurusIndonesian
- magroItalian
- [[骨]]と[[皮]][[ばかり]]の, やせる, やせこけるJapanese
- ស្គមស្គាំង, ស្គមKhmer
- 빼빼하다, 마르다Korean
- macerLatin
- ຈ່ອຍLao
- pakareaMāori
- мршавMacedonian
- magerDutch
- magerNorwegian
- chudyPolish
- magroPortuguese
- худо́й, то́щийRussian
- mršav, мршавSerbo-Croatian
- chudýSlovak
- mršavSlovene
- magerSwedish
- ผอมThai
- sıskaTurkish
- худи́йUkrainian
- gầyVietnamese
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