Skeletal

3 definitions found

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

  Skeletal \Skel"e*tal\, a.
     Pertaining to the skeleton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  skeletal
       adj 1: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the
              skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
       2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
          "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt
          men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous";
          "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only
          by grim concentration" [syn: {bony}, {cadaverous}, {emaciated},
           {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {wasted}]

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

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "skeletal":
     attenuated, bony, cadaverous, corpselike, emacerated, emaciate,
     emaciated, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt,
     gawky, haggard, hollow-eyed, jejune, lank, lanky, lean,
     lean-fleshed, lean-looking, marantic, marasmic, meager, peaked,
     peaky, pinched, poor, puny, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled,
     skeleton, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, starved,
     starveling, tabetic, tabid, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy,
     underfed, undernourished, undersized, underweight, wasted, weazeny,
     withered, wizened, wraithlike