thin; lean




lacking excess flesh

"you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

Antonym:
  • fat

Nearest:
  • anorexic; anorectic
  • bony; cadaverous; emaciated; gaunt; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted
  • deep-eyed; hollow-eyed; sunken-eyed
  • gangling; gangly; lanky
  • lank; spindly
  • rawboned
  • reedy; reedlike
  • twiggy; twiglike
  • scarecrowish
  • scraggy; boney; scrawny; skinny; underweight; weedy
  • shriveled; shrivelled; shrunken; withered; wizen; wizened
  • slender; slight; slim; svelte
  • slender-waisted; slim-waisted; wasp-waisted
  • spare; trim
  • spindle-legged; spindle-shanked
  • stringy; wiry
  • wisplike; wispy


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