| bony | | |
| adj. | 1. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" |
| ~ lean, thin | lacking excess flesh.; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look" |
| adj. (pertain) | 2. bony, osseous, osteal | composed of or containing bone.; "osseous tissue" |
| adj. | 3. boney, bony | having bones especially many or prominent bones.; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" |
| ~ bone | consisting of or made up of bone.; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body" |
| ~ boned | having bones as specified.; "his lanky long-boned body" |
| ~ bonelike | resembling bone.; "a bonelike tumor" |
| ~ strong-boned | having strong bones. |
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