Rawboned

//ɹɔːboʊnd//

Synonyms for "rawboned" (33 found)

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Closest matches (7)

angular bony flat flat-chested fleshless gangling

Adjective(1 words)

carrion

Strong matches (10)

gangly gaunt gawky lank lanky lean lean-fleshed lean-looking meager

Adjective(1 words)

puny

Related words (16)

scraggy scrawny skeletal skinny spare spidery spindling spindly thin thin-bellied thin-fleshed twiggy undersized underweight

Adjective(2 words)

wasted weedy

Related word relations

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3 relation types

derived from

2 entries

boned raw

related to

3 entries

bony gaunt thin

similar

3 entries

lean thin

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I am so thin that they say I look rawboned.

Source: tatoeba (927056)

Deuce take lady S⁠⸺; and if I know D⁠⸺⁠y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred.

Source: wiktionary

[…] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.

Source: wiktionary

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