scrawny

English - Turkish

Definition of scrawny in English Turkish dictionary

cılız

bir deri bir kemik

sıska

Tom zayıf ve sıska arasındaki farkı bilmiyor. - Tom doesn't know the difference between thin and scrawny.

zayıf ve kuru

kemikleri çıkmış

Related Terms

scrawniness

zayıflık

English - English

Definition of scrawny in English English dictionary

Thin, malnourished and weak

disapproval If you describe a person or animal as scrawny, you mean that they look unattractive because they are so thin. a scrawny woman with dyed black hair. a scrawny person or animal looks very thin and weak (scranny (1800-1900), probably from a language)

{s} very skinny, gaunt, lean, thin

Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny

having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees

inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

Related Terms

scrawniness

{i} thinness, leanness, quality of being very skinny

scrawniness

The property of being scrawny

Hyphenation

scraw·ny

Turkish pronunciation

skrôni

Synonyms

angular, bony, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, rawboned, scraggy, skeletal, skin-and-bones, skinny, spare, undernourished, underweight

Antonyms

chubby, fat, healthy, plump

Pronunciation

/ˈskrônē/ /ˈskrɔːniː/

Etymology

[ 'skro-nE ] (adjective.) 1833. Perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”)“” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001.

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