skeletal

3 definitions found

skeletal - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Skeletal \Skel"e*tal\, a.
     Pertaining to the skeleton.
     [1913 Webster]

skeletal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  skeletal
      adj 1: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton;
             "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal
             muscles"
      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, skeletal, wasted]

skeletal - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "skeletal":
     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