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bony

adjective

1 bony

Being very thin:
— Pale bony hands.

synonyms: boney, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy.

Polish: kościany, kościsty, szkieletowaty

2 bony

Composed of or containing bone.

synonyms: osseous, osteal.

Roget 323: hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, ... show more

Polish: kostny

3 bony

Having bones especially many or prominent bones:
— A bony shad fillet.
— Her bony wrist.
— Bony fish.

synonym: boney.


Moby thesaurus: angular, bone, cement, cemental, concrete, corneous, dense, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, flintlike, flinty, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, granitelike, granitic ... show more.

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