Bony

English

Adjective

Bony (comparative bonier, superlative boniest)

1. resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
2. full of bones
3. with little flesh; skinny, thin
4. having prominent bones

Adverbs for Bony

awkwardly; fantastically; grotesquely; amusingly; pathetically; complacently; unbelievably; distressingly; angularly; terribly; horridly; oddly; touchingly; grievously; unthinkably; ludicrously; ridiculously; deplorably; lamentably; strangely; queerly; singularly; drolly.

Thesaurus

angular, bone, cement, cemental, concrete, corneous, dense, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, flintlike, flinty, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, horny, iron-hard, ironlike, lank, lanky, lapideous, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, meager, obdurate, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous, ossified, osteal, rawboned, resistant, resistive, rocklike, rocky, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, solid, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tough, twiggy, undersized, underweight

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊni

Alternative forms

• boney

Translations

resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone

Bulgarian: костен (bg) Finnish: luumainen (fi), luinen (fi) German: knöchern

Ido: ostala (io) Romanian: osos (ro) Spanish: huesudo (es)

full of bones

Finnish: luinen (fi), ruotoinen (fi) (of fish), luiseva (fi)

German: grätig

with little flesh; skinny, thin

Bulgarian: кокалест (bg) Finnish: luiseva (fi) German: knochig

Romanian: osos (ro) Russian: костлявый (ru) Spanish: huesudo (es)

having prominent bones

Bulgarian: кокалест (bg) Finnish: luiseva (fi)

German: knochig Spanish: huesudo (es)