Synonyms for rangy
- adjective
Most common
tall scrawny leggy gangly expansive commodious nomadic extravagant
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
2. Expansive — having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious
expansive, commodious, roomy, comfortable, spacious, convenient
3. Nomadic — prone to roaming around
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Prone to roaming around.
- adj. 2
Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious.
- adj. 3
Slender and long of limb; lanky.
For an accountant, Robert had a rangy appearance.
Related words
- Other spellings
- rangey
Example sentences
- tall A tall tree projects its long shadow on the water.
- scrawny Tom doesn't know the difference between thin and scrawny.
- leggy All the French beans on the allotment this year were leggy.
- gangly He had rather gangly limbs as a boy.
- expansive I'd never seen such expansive scenery.
- commodious I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.
By length
- 4 letters
- tall1, lean1
- 5 letters
- lanky2, roomy2, leggy2
- 6 letters
- roving2, gangly2, storky
- 7 letters
- nomadic3, scrawny2
- 8 letters
- spacious2, gangling
- 9 letters
- expansive3
- 10 letters
- convenient3, commodious4, wandersome
- 11 letters
- comfortable4, extravagant4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lanky2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- longiligne
- Italiano
- longilineo