What is "skeletal" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does skeletal mean in English? Meaning of skeletal definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "skeletal" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "skeletal": of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton

Adjective

  • Meaning: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton
  • Example: the skeletal system skeletal bones skeletal muscles
  • Synonyms: skeletal
  • Meaning of "skeletal": very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

    Adjective

  • Meaning: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: bony cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal wasted
  • Similar: lean thin
  • Adjective: of, or relating to the skeletonhaggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt
  • Synonyms:

    bony, emaciated, anorexic, cadaverous, drawn, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, scrawny, shrunken, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, withered, atrophied, attenuated, shrivelled, skin and bones, skin-and-bones, undernourished,

    Antonyms:

    overweight, plump, fat, heavy,

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    skeletal in English: skeletal
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