scrawny

3 definitions found

scrawny - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Scrawny \Scraw"ny\ (skr[add]"n[y^]), a. [Cf. Scrannel.]
     Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
     [1913 Webster]

scrawny - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  scrawny
      adj 1: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a
             long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny,
             skinny, underweight, weedy]
      2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-
         over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny,
         scrubby, stunted]

scrawny - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrawny":
     Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angular, anorectic, anorexic, ascetic,
     austere, bony, cadaverous, drawn, dwarfed, dwarfish, emaciated,
     exiguous, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, frugal, gangling, gangly,
     gaunt, gawky, haggard, impoverished, jejune, lank, lanky, lean,
     lean-fleshed, lean-looking, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow,
     niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, rawboned, reedy,
     scant, scanty, scraggy, scrimp, scrimpy, skeletal, skimp, skimpy,
     skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, spidery,
     spindling, spindly, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened,
     stunted, subsistence, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy,
     undersized, underweight, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered,
     watery