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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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "skeletal":

    skeleton, bone, bony

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#4053bone
#4609drawn
#7827worn
#12442wasted
#13647skeleton
#15234nasal
#17621skeletal
#17833diminished
#18270pointless
#31681haggard
#35057senseless
#35699superfluous
#40094bony
#44263boney
#45025pinched
#49528gaunt
#54883squandered
#75520penniless
#89296emaciated
#112633osseous
#114369cadaveric
#148311purposeless
#149128atrophied
#194565cadaverous
#268536impecunious
#302251careworn
#313943penurious

How to use skeletal in a sentence?

  1. Juanita Molina:

    Many people die from dehydration, from exposure, but also another element of this is that we find many skeletal remains, so people pass and we don't know why.

  2. Chris Stantis:

    Strontium enters our bodies primarily through the food we eat, it readily replaces calcium, as its a similar atomic radius. This is the same way lead enters our skeletal system; although, while lead is dangerous, strontium is not.

  3. Laura Bachrach:

    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.

  4. Emmanuel Audenaert:

    Severe muscular training and high loading activities should be restricted until skeletal maturity for any joint and sport.

  5. Marie Strader:

    We intended this paper to serve as a humble blueprint for how researchers can use this technology to study the functions of coral genes, we are currently conducting experiments investigating how specific genes regulate coral skeletal formation, or calcification, for example. However, we expect this technique could be useful to identify genes involved in many other ecologically important traits such as thermal tolerance or coral bleaching.


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