'Skeletal' definitions:
Definition of 'skeletal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
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 'Skeletal'
From: GCIDE
- Skeletal \Skel"e*tal\, a. Pertaining to the skeleton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'skeletal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- attenuated,
- bony,
- cadaverous,
- corpselike,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- flat,
- flat-chested,
- fleshless,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- gaunt,
- gawky,
- haggard,
- hollow-eyed,
- jejune,
- lank,
- lanky,
- lean,
- lean-fleshed,
- lean-looking,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- meager,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- pinched,
- poor,
- puny,
- rawboned,
- scraggy,
- scrawny,
- shriveled,
- skeleton,
- skinny,
- spare,
- spidery,
- spindling,
- spindly,
- starved,
- starveling,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- thin-bellied,
- thin-fleshed,
- twiggy,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- undersized,
- underweight,
- wasted,
- weazeny,
- withered,
- wizened,
- wraithlike