skeletal

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton (Freq. 13)
- the skeletal system
- skeletal bones
- skeletal muscles
• Pertains to noun:
skeleton
• Derivationally related forms:
skeleton
2. 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
• Syn:
bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard,
pinched, wasted
• Similar to:
thin, lean
• Derivationally related forms:
gauntness (for: gaunt), boniness (for: bony), bonyness (for: bony)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted