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rawboned

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of rawboned

having a prominent and often large or rugged bone structure

The cowboy was tall and rawboned.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of rawboned

angular, bony (also boney)

fatless, lean, lithe, skinny, slender, slim, spare, svelte, thin

scraggy, scrawny

clean-limbed, trim

sylphlike, willowy

gangling, gangly

lank, lanky, rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, stringy, twiggy, waspish, weedy

spindle-legged, spindle-shanked

anorectic (also anoretic), anorexic, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, wizened

meager (or meagre), puny, slight

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of rawboned

beefy, bulky, chunky, fleshy, heavy, heavyset, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty

brawny, burly, husky

dumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, squat, stubby

paunchy, potbellied

buxom, zaftig (also zoftig)

full, hippy, round

chubby, corpulent, fat, gross, obese, overweight, plump, portly, rotund, tubby

Synonym Discussion of rawboned

lean, spare, lank, lanky, gaunt, rawboned, scrawny, skinny mean thin because of an absence of excess flesh. lean stresses lack of fat and of curving contours.

- a lean racehorse

spare suggests leanness from abstemious living or constant exercise.

- the gymnast's spare figure

lank implies tallness as well as leanness.

- the lank legs of the heron

lanky suggests awkwardness and loose-jointedness as well as thinness.

- a lanky youth, all arms and legs

gaunt implies marked thinness or emaciation as from overwork or suffering.

- a prisoner's gaunt face

rawboned suggests a large ungainly build without implying undernourishment.

- a rawboned farmer

scrawny and skinny imply an extreme leanness that suggests deficient strength and vitality.

- a scrawny chicken
- skinny street urchins

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