skin and bones

Questions about skin and bones

What is another word for skin and bones?

It depends which skin and bones you mean. In the sense “a person who is unusually thin and scrawny”, the synonyms are thin person, scrag. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of skin and bones?

WordNet records no antonym for skin and bones. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for skin and bones come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of skin and bones

• Full entry for skin and bonesAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for skin and bonesWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.