Scrawny

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scrawny \Scraw"ny\ (skr[add]"n[y^]), a. [Cf. {Scrannel}.]
     Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  scrawny
       adj 1: having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled
              legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: {scraggy}, {skinny},
               {underweight}, {weedy}]
       2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby
          cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: {scrubby},
           {stunted}]
       [also: {scrawniest}, {scrawnier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrawny":
     Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angular, anorectic, anorexic, ascetic,
     austere, bony, cadaverous, drawn, dwarfed, dwarfish, emaciated,
     exiguous, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, frugal, gangling, gangly,
     gaunt, gawky, haggard, impoverished, jejune, lank, lanky, lean,
     lean-fleshed, lean-looking, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow,
     niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, rawboned, reedy,
     scant, scanty, scraggy, scrimp, scrimpy, skeletal, skimp, skimpy,
     skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, spidery,
     spindling, spindly, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened,
     stunted, subsistence, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy,
     undersized, underweight, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered,
     watery