| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
Synonyms: |
ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted |
Antonyms: |
flushed, lifelike, lively |
| 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: | meager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very thin |
Synonyms: |
angular, bare, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, broomstick, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, hungry, lacking, lank, lanky, lean, lithe, little, narrow, rattleboned, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skin and bones, skinny, slender, slim, spare, starved, stinted, stunted, tenuous, underfed, wanting, willowy, withered |
Antonyms: |
big, fat, full, large, wide |
| Main Entry: | underweight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
Synonyms: |
angular, anorectic, bony, gangly, malnourished, puny, scrawny, shadow, skeleton, skin and bones, skinny, starved, stringbean, undernourished, undersized |
Antonyms: |
chubby, fat, overweight, plump, thick |
| Main Entry: | skeletal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wasted |
Synonyms: |
anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony, cadaverous, drawn, emaciated, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, scrawny, shrivelled, shrunken, skin and bones, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, undernourished, withered |