skinny

1. 1.

   being very thin

   “a child with skinny freckled legs”

   “a long scrawny neck”

   “pale bony hands”

   Synonymsscraggyscragglyboneybonyscrawnyunderweightweedy

   Similarthin
2. 2.

   of or relating to or resembling skin
3. 3.

   fitting snugly

   “a tightly-fitting cover”

   “tight-fitting clothes”

   Synonymstight-fittingtightfittingtight fittingtightly fitting

   Similartight
4. 4.

   giving or spending with reluctance

   “our cheeseparing administration”

   “very close (or near) with his money”

   “a penny-pinching miserly old man”

   Synonymscheeseparingclosenearpenny-pinching

   Similarstingy

1. 1.

   confidential information about a topic or person

   “he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner”

   Broaderinformation

Other forms of skinny

plural

skinnies·

comparative or superlative

skinnier

comparative or superlative

skinniest

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 skinny

What does skinny mean?

skinny means "being very thin". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skinny?

skinny has 2 syllables: skin-ny. The stress falls on "skin". In IPA it is /ˈskɪni/.

What is another word for skinny?

Close synonyms include scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny. 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 skinny a common word?

skinny is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.