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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1854 of, relating to, forming, attached to, or resembling a skeleton • skeletally adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Skeletal Skel"e*tal, a. Pertaining to the skeleton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Skeletal means relating to the bones in your body. ...the skeletal remains of seven adults. ...the skeletal system. ADJ: ADJ n 2. A skeletal person is so thin that you can see their bones through their skin. ...a hospital filled with skeletal children. ADJ 3. Something that is skeletal has been reduced to its basic structure. Passenger services can best be described as skeletal. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

attenuated, bony, cadaverous, corpselike, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, haggard, hollow-eyed, jejune, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, marantic, marasmic, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, puny, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled, skeleton, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, underfed, undernourished, undersized, underweight, wasted, weazeny, withered, wizened, wraithlike