| Main Entry: | skeleton |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | structure of bones in animate being or supports in an object |
Synonyms: |
bones, bony structure, cage, design, draft, frame, framework, osteology, outline, scaffolding, sketch, support |
Antonyms: |
carcass |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulk; central portion |
Synonyms: |
assembly, basis, bed, box, chassis, core, corpus, crux, essence, frame, fuselage, gist, gravamen, groundwork, hull, main part, majority, mass, material, matter, pith, skeleton, staple, substance, substructure, sum, tenor, total, trunk, whole |
Antonyms: |
nothing, nothingness |
| Main Entry: | cadaver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dead body |
Synonyms: |
body, cage, carcass, corpse, deceased, mort, remains, skeleton, stiff* |
Antonyms: |
being |
| Main Entry: | carcass/carcase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dead body; framework, base structure |
Synonyms: |
body, cadaver, corpse, framework, hulk, mort, remains, shell, skeleton, stiff* |
| Main Entry: | draft |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | formulate |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, block out, characterize, compose, concoct, contrive, delineate, design, devise, draw, draw up, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, invent, make, manufacture, outline, plan, prepare, project, rough, shape, skeleton, sketch |
| Notes: | wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically |
| Main Entry: | form |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shape; arrangement |
Synonyms: |
anatomy, appearance, articulation, cast, configuration, conformation, construction, contour, cut, design, die, embodiment, fashion, figure, formation, framework, mode, model, mold, outline, pattern, plan, profile, scheme, silhouette, skeleton, structure, style, system |
Antonyms: |
shapelessness |
| Main Entry: | fossil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organic remains of a previous time |
Synonyms: |
deposit, eolith, impression, neolith, paleolith, petrifaction, reconstruction, relic, skeleton, specimen, trace |
| Main Entry: | framework |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation, core |
Synonyms: |
bare bones, cage, fabric, frame, frame of reference, groundwork, plan, schema, scheme, shell, skeleton, structure |
| Main Entry: | gaunt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skinny |
Synonyms: |
angular, anorexic, attenuated, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skeleton, skin and bones, spare, thin, wasted |
Antonyms: |
plump, thick, well-nourished |
| Main Entry: | hulk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large piece, lump; remains |
Synonyms: |
blob, body, bulk, chunk, clod, clump, frame, hull, hunk, mass, ruins, shambles, shell, shipwreck, skeleton, wreck |
Antonyms: |
bit |