skeletal

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skeletal Definition

• (a) of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
• (s) 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"

skeletal Synonyms

• bony
• cadaverous
• emaciated
• gaunt
• haggard
• pinched
• skeletal
• wasted