scrawny
Adjective Satellite
- being very thin
- "a long scrawny neck"
- inferior in size or quality
- "scrawny cattle"
Adj
- Thin, malnourished, and weak.
Adjective
- Extremely thin or gaunt in appearance.
Examples
- The letter ’I’ seemed SCRAWNY next to the robust ’Q’ on his Scrabble rack.
Origin / Etymology
A variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) + -y. Compare Norwegian skran (“lean, thin, skinny”), English scrannel (“lean; meager; poor; worthless”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”).
Synonyms
boney, scraggy, scrubby, skinny, stunted, underweight, weedy, angular, anorexic, carrion, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, leptosome, macilent, pencil-necked, puny, rangy, rawboned, reedy, scrawny, skin and bones, starved, thin as a rake, undernourished, wasted
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
scrawny: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordscrawny: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scrawny: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary