asthenic type

1. 1.

   slender, weak, and lightweight

   Synonymsectomorphy

   Broaderbody type

Questions about asthenic type

What does asthenic type mean?

asthenic type means "slender, weak, and lightweight".

What is another word for asthenic type?

Close synonyms include ectomorphy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asthenic type a common word?

asthenic type is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.