Spindly

3 definitions found

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

  Spindly \Spin"dly\, a.
     Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as,
     spindly legs.. Used in some cases to suggest weakness.
  
     Syn: spindling. [PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spindly
       adj : long and lean [syn: {lank}]
       [also: {spindliest}, {spindlier}]

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

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "spindly":
     bony, dilapidated, doddering, flat, flat-chested, fleshless,
     gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, groggy, lank, lanky, lean,
     lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager, ramshackle, rangy, rawboned,
     ricketish, rickety, rocky, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, skeletal,
     skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, teetering, teetery,
     thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, twiggy,
     undersized, underweight, unsteady, wobbly