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scrawny

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of scrawny

very thin in a way that is not attractive or healthy

He changed from a scrawny kid to a brawny teen in just over a year.

The only plants in their yard were a couple of scrawny bushes.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of scrawny

angular, rawboned, scraggy, sinewy, wiry

bony (also boney), fatless, lean, lithe, skinny, slender, slim, spare, svelte, thin

clean-limbed, trim

sylphlike, willowy

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

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

meager (or meagre), puny, slight

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of scrawny

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 scrawny

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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