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| Main Entry: | anorexic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving |
| Synonyms: | emaciated, thin, bulimic, malnourished, sickly looking, without appetite |
| Main Entry: | emaciated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undernourished; thin |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, attenuate, bony, cadaverous, consumptive, famished, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, peaked, scrawny, skinny, starved, underfed, wasted, wizened, atrophied, attenuated, lank, like a bag of bones, pinched, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin-and-bones, thin as rail |
| Antonyms: | fat, heavy, overweight, plump, overnourished |
| Main Entry: | gaunt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skinny |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lean, meager, peaked, rawboned, scrawny, skeleton, spare, thin, wasted, attenuated, lank, like a bag of bones, peaky, pinched, scraggy, skeletal, skin and bones |
| Antonyms: | plump, thick, well-nourished |
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, barren, beanpole*, bony, emaciated, gangling, gaunt, haggard, inadequate, infertile, lanky, meager, pitiful, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scrawny, shadow*, sinewy, skinny, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stick, stringy, svelte, unfruitful, unproductive, wasted, wiry, wizened, worn, gangly, lank, no fat, scraggy, stilt, sylphlike, twiggy |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
| Antonyms: | fat, plump |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wasted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emaciated |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, bony, famished, gaunt, haggard, lean, scrawny, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, withered, atrophied, attenuated, lank, shrivelled, skeletal, skin-and-bones, undernourished |
| Main Entry: | bony |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, emaciated, gaunt, lean, scrawny, skinny, underweight |
| Antonyms: | beefy, fat, heavy, overweight, plump |
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