1. (adj) bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
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, skeletal, cadaveric, cadaverous, careworn, wasted, raddled, bony, impecunious, worn, emaciated, pointless Antonyms: deboned, boneless, fat, boned
2. (adj) osseous, osteal, bony
composed of or containing bone
Synonyms: wasted, bony, boney, haggard, skeletal, emaciated, cadaverous, osseous, pinched, gaunt, osteal Antonyms: boneless, deboned, fat, boned
3. (adj) bony, boney
having bones especially many or prominent bones
Synonyms: wasted, bony, boney, haggard, skinny, skeletal, emaciated, scrawny, underweight, osteal, cadaverous, osseous, scraggy, gaunt, weedy, pinched Antonyms: deboned, boned, boneless, fat
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