skeletal

  • (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
    bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted,

Synonyms

bony cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard pinched wasted

Words of close approximity

skeleton
skeletal frame skeletal muscle skeletal structure skeletal system