Synonyms for scrawny
- adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Thin, malnourished, and weak.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- cadaverous physique thin weak
Example sentences
- skinny Tom and Mary were very skinny when they were kids.
- gaunt I recoiled when I saw how gaunt she had become.
- gangly He had rather gangly limbs as a boy.
By length
- 4 letters
- poor1, thin1, lean1, bony2, puny2, lank1
- 5 letters
- gaunt1, lanky2, reedy2, weedy2, rangy2
- 6 letters
- skinny2, meager2, meagre, gangly2
- 7 letters
- slender2, angular3, stunted2, haggard2, scrubby2, scraggy
- 8 letters
- skeletal3, anorexic4, scraggly2, gangling, rawboned, macilent
- 9 letters
- emaciated5
- 11 letters
- underweight3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bony2 = 2 syllables).