Tom is a scrawny kid.
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Scrawny
//ˈskɹɔni//
Synonyms for "scrawny" (115 found)
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63 translations across 24 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- мършав adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 消瘦 adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- 瘦弱 adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Czech
1 entries- vychrtlý adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Danish
1 entries- mager adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Dutch
3 entries- mager adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- ondervoed adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- zwak adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Finnish
3 entries- hintelä adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- hontelo adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- luiseva adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
French
2 entries- famélique adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- maigrichon adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
German
2 entries- abgemagert adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- dürr adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Greek
1 entries- αχαμνός adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Hungarian
4 entries- cingár adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- csontos adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- csontsovány adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- nyiszlett adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Indonesian
1 entries- kerempeng adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Italian
2 entries- emaciato adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- macilento adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Korean
1 entries- 앙상하다 adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Macedonian
3 entries- и́сушен adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- мр́шав adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- сув adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Norwegian
4 entries- radmager adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- skranglet adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- skrant adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- skrinn adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ضعیف adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Polish
1 entries- wychudzony adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Portuguese
2 entries- magrelo adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- magricela adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Russian
2 entries- костля́вый adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- то́щий adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- žgoljav adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Spanish
4 entries- canijo adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- enclenque adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- endeble adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- enjuto adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Swedish
4 entries- mager adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- skraltig adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- skranglig adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- spinkig adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Turkish
2 entries- cılız adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- sıska adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Ukrainian
2 entries- кістлявий adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
- худорлявий adj (thin, malnourished and weak)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Tom isn't scrawny.
Source: tatoeba (2237013)
For the past few years, teenagers who imitate overweight American rappers have been walking like inverted pendulums, swinging from left to right, which is the only way forward if you weigh over two hundred and sixty pounds, but completely ineffective if you are a scrawny teenager weighing half of that, since most of the energy is wasted on side steps, not to mention the sheer absurdity of that swinging gait.
Source: tatoeba (2472726)
Tom is very scrawny and wouldn't be able to fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
Source: tatoeba (3098779)
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