bony

Other forms of bony

comparative or superlative

bonier

comparative or superlative

boniest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bony

What does bony mean?

bony means "being very thin". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bony?

bony has 2 syllables: bo-ny. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˈboʊni/.

What is another word for bony?

Close synonyms include scraggy, scraggly, boney, scrawny, skinny. 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.

What is the opposite of bony?

The recorded antonyms are boneless.

Is bony a common word?

bony is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bony?

2 words rhyme with bony. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.