Lean stresses lack of fat and of curving contours. Skinny adjective (food and drink) low in fat See examples of skinny used in a sentence. Some common synonyms of skinny are gaunt, lanky, lank, lean, rawboned, scrawny, and spare While all these words mean thin because of an absence of excess flesh, scrawny and skinny imply an extreme leanness that suggests deficient strength and vitality. Skinny (comparative skinnier, superlative skinniest) (informal) thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
Some health experts worry when someone is called skinny because it may show a lack of strength Statistics indicate that only 10% of people are extremely skinny. Definition of skinny adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. There are 14 meanings listed in oed's entry for the word skinny, three of which are labelled obsolete See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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