Skinny

//ˈskɪni//

Synonyms for "skinny" (87 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (18)

thin underweight angular bony cortical cutaneous dermal dermic dope ecderonic ectodermal ectodermic

Adjective(4 words)

boney bony cheeseparing close

Adjective(2 words)

carrion close-fitting

Strong matches (26)

emaciated endermatic endermic epicarpal epidermal epidermic flat flat-chested fleshless frail furry gangling gangly gaunt gawky haggard half-starved hypodermal hypodermic lank

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lanky lean lean-fleshed lean-looking light

Adjective(1 words)

low-fat

Related words (43)

meager meagre penny pinching pinched rawboned scraggy scrawny shrunken skeletal skimpy skin deep skin-deep spare spidery spindling spindly subcutaneous testaceous thin-bellied thin-fleshed

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thinny tightly fitting twiggy undernourished undersized wasted weedy

Adjective(11 words)

near penny-pinching scraggly scraggy scrawny tight fitting tight-fitting tightfitting tightly fitting underweight weedy

Adjective(4 words)

puny skintight snug thin

Noun(1 words)

skin and bones

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

2 entries

info information

Synonyms

5 entries

dope penny pinching thin tightly fitting underweight

derived

23 entries

skinnily skinniness skinny Liz skinny Minnie skinny as a rail skinny bitch skinny dip skinny dipper skinny down skinny drink of water skinny fat skinny jab skinny legend skinny malink skinny mirror skinny out

Showing 16 of 23 words.

derived from

1 entries

skin

etymologically related_to

1 entries

skin and bones

is a

4 entries

bareness information nakedness nudity

related to

15 entries

coffee cut down details facts gossip naked nude nudity reduce rumor skin skinny dipping slim thin tight fitting

similar

5 entries

lean stingy thin tight ungenerous

Translations

111 translations across 56 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἰσχνός adj (thin)

Arabic

1 entries

نَحِيف adj (thin)

Aromanian

1 entries

slab adj (thin)

Asturian

1 entries

flacu adj (thin)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

arıq adj (thin)

Belarusian

1 entries

худы́ adj (thin)

Bulgarian

1 entries

мъ́ршав adj (thin)

Catalan

1 entries

magre adj (thin)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎤᎴᏐᏓ adj (thin)

Chickasaw

1 entries

chonna adj (thin)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

瘦 adj (thin)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

枯瘦 adj (thin)
瘦 adj (thin)
皮包骨頭 /皮包骨头 adj (thin)

Czech

1 entries

hubený adj (thin)

Dutch

1 entries

mager adj (thin)

Esperanto

1 entries

magra adj (thin)

Finnish

3 entries

laiha adj (thin)
luiseva adj (thin)
laiha noun (A skinny person)

French

4 entries

maigre adj (thin)
maigrelet adj (thin)
maigrichon adj (thin)
maigre noun (A skinny person)

German

1 entries

mager adj (thin)

Greek

1 entries

ισχνός adj (thin)

Hebrew

1 entries

רָזֶה adj (thin)

Hindi

1 entries

पतला adj (thin)

Hungarian

2 entries

vékony adj (thin)
sovány noun (A skinny person)

Indonesian

1 entries

kurus adj (thin)

Italian

4 entries

emaciato adj (thin)
macilento adj (thin)
magro adj (thin)
pelle e ossa adj (thin)

Japanese

3 entries

やせこけた adj (thin)
やせた adj (thin)
骨と皮ばかりの adj (thin)

Javanese

4 entries

garing adj (thin)
gering adj (thin)
kera adj (thin)
kuru adj (thin)

Kabuverdianu

2 entries

magru adj (thin)
mógre adj (thin)

Khmer

2 entries

ស្គម adj (thin)
ស្គមស្គាំង adj (thin)

Korean

2 entries

마른 adj (thin)
빼빼한 adj (thin)

Lao

1 entries

ຈ່ອຍ adj (thin)

Latin

3 entries

gracilis adj (thin)
macer adj (thin)
macer noun (A skinny person)

Louisiana Creole

2 entries

mæg adj (thin)
mèg adj (thin)

Macedonian

1 entries

мршав adj (thin)

Māori

4 entries

hīoi adj (thin)
hīroki adj (thin)
kōhoi adj (thin)
pakarea adj (thin)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

mager adj (thin)
skinnmager adj (thin)

Occitan

2 entries

magre adj (thin)
magrostin adj (thin)

Old English

1 entries

mæġer adj (thin)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

ضعیف adj (thin)
نازك adj (thin)

Persian

1 entries

لاغر adj (thin)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

denn adj (thin)
hollrigjich adj (thin)

Polish

1 entries

chudy adj (thin)

Portuguese

1 entries

magro adj (thin)

Quechua

1 entries

raphi adj (thin)

Romanian

1 entries

slab adj (thin)

Russian

2 entries

то́щий adj (thin)
худо́й adj (thin)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

mršav adj (thin)
мршав adj (thin)

Slovak

1 entries

chudý adj (thin)

Slovene

2 entries

shujšan adj (thin)
suh adj (thin)

Spanish

4 entries

delgado adj (thin)
enlapado adj (thin)
flaco adj (thin)
flaco noun (A skinny person)

Swedish

1 entries

mager adj (thin)

Thai

1 entries

ผอม adj (thin)

Tày

1 entries

ảy adj (thin)

Ukrainian

1 entries

худи́й adj (thin)

Urdu

1 entries

پتلا adj (thin)

Vietnamese

4 entries

còm adj (thin)
gầy adj (thin)
ròm adj (thin)
ốm adj (thin)

Yiddish

1 entries

מאָגער adj (thin)

Sample sentences

29 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

That man is skinny, but his wife is fat.

Source: tatoeba (45342)

My sister's skinny and me, I'm chubby.

Source: tatoeba (498004)

It's more polite to say thin than skinny.

Source: tatoeba (652410)

The neighborhood has been gentrified. Now it's teeming with pretend hipsters slurping skinny lattes at Starbucks. They gather round coffee and free Wi-Fi like bees round a honeypot.

Source: tatoeba (841246)

Showing 4 of 29 available sentences.

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