'Skinny' definitions:
Definition of 'skinny'
From: WordNet
adjective
Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy]
adjective
Of or relating to or resembling skin
adjective
Fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes" [syn: tight-fitting, tightfitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting, skinny]
adjective
Giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny]
noun
Confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"
Definition of 'Skinny'
From: GCIDE
- Skinny \Skin"ny\, a. Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He holds him with a skinny hand. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'skinny'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angular,
- bony,
- cortical,
- cutaneous,
- dermal,
- dermic,
- ecderonic,
- ectodermal,
- ectodermic,
- emaciated,
- endermatic,
- endermic,
- epicarpal,
- epidermal,
- epidermic,
- flat,
- flat-chested,
- fleshless,
- furry,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- gaunt,
- gawky,
- half-starved,
- hypodermal,
- hypodermic,
- lank,
- lanky,
- lean,
- lean-fleshed,
- lean-looking,
- meager,
- pinched,
- rawboned,
- scraggy,
- scrawny,
- shrunken,
- skeletal,
- skin-deep,
- spare,
- spidery,
- spindling,
- spindly,
- subcutaneous,
- testaceous,
- thin,
- thin-bellied,
- thin-fleshed,
- twiggy,
- undernourished,
- undersized,
- underweight,
- wasted,
- weedy