Thesaurus:scrawny

Thesaurus

scrawny

English

Adjective

Sense: thin, malnourished and weak

Synonyms

• angular
• anorexic
• carrion (obsolete)
• emaciated
• gangling
• gangly
• gaunt
• haggard
• macilent
• lank
• lanky
• leptosome
• pencil-necked
• puny
• rangy
• rawboned
• reedy
• scraggy
• scrawny
• skin and bones
• skinny
• starved
• thin as a rake
• undernourished
• underweight
• wasted
• weedy

Antonyms

• heavy
• large    [⇒ thesaurus]
• obese    [⇒ thesaurus]
• overweight    [⇒ thesaurus]
• strapping    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• flat-chested    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• cadaverous    [⇒ thesaurus]
• physique    [⇒ thesaurus]
• thin
• weak    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:slender
• Thesaurus:thin person

Further reading

• “203. narrowness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “scrawny” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.