Tall and thin and having long slender limbs:
— A lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man.

synonyms: gangling, gangly, rangy.

Roget 203: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like etc. (filament) 205; finespun^†, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious^†; contracted etc. 195; unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. 194^†; slender as a thread.    [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent^†; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky [U.S.]; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.    attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid^†, marcid^†, barebone, rawboned.    monomolecular.    ... show more

Roget 206: high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic etc. (big) 192; Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens); elevated etc. 307; upper; highest etc. (topmost) 210; high reaching, insessorial^†, perching.    upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt^†, cloudcapt^†, cloudtouching^†; aerial.    overhanging etc. v.; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent^†, supernatant, superimposed; prominent etc. v. 250.    tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky etc. (thin) 203.    ... show more

Tall and thin.

synonyms: gangling, gangly.