'Emaciated' definitions:
Definition of 'emaciated'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, skeletal, wasted]
Definition of 'Emaciated'
From: GCIDE
- Emaciate \E*ma"ci*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emaciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emaciating.] [L. emaciatus, p. p. of emaciare to make lean; e + maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer lean. See Meager.] To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'emaciated'
From: GCIDE
- emaciated \emaciated\ adj. having become so thin that the bones noticeably protude under the skin; as, emaciated bony hands.
- Syn: bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'emaciated'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anorectic,
- anorexic,
- atrophied,
- attenuated,
- bony,
- brittle,
- cadaverous,
- consumed,
- consumptive,
- corky,
- corpselike,
- desiccated,
- drawn,
- dried-up,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- gaunt,
- haggard,
- half-starved,
- hollow-eyed,
- jejune,
- lean,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- papery,
- parched,
- parchmenty,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- phthisic,
- pinched,
- poor,
- preshrunk,
- puny,
- Sanforized,
- scrawny,
- sear,
- sere,
- shriveled,
- shriveled up,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- skeletal,
- skinny,
- spare,
- starved,
- starveling,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- thin,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- wasted,
- wasted away,
- wasting away,
- weazened,
- weazeny,
- wilted,
- withered,
- wizen,
- wizen-faced,
- wizened,
- wraithlike,
- wrinkled