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.
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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