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- [skin-ee]
- /ˈskɪn i/
- /ˈskɪn.i/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [skin-ee]
- /ˈskɪn i/
Definitions of skinny word
- adjective skinny very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten. 1
- adjective skinny of or like skin. 1
- adjective skinny unusually low or reduced; meager; minimal: skinny profits. 1
- adjective skinny (of an object) narrow or slender: a skinny bed. 1
- noun skinny Slang. accurate information; data; facts. news, especially if confidential; gossip: Here's the skinny on the latest Hollywood scandal. 1
- adjective skinny person: thin 1
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Origin of skinny
First appearance:
before 1565 One of the 32% oldest English words
1565-75; skin + -y1; def. 5 is unclearly derived and perhaps a distinct word
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Skinny
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
skinny popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 81% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
skinny usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for skinny
adj skinny
- angular — Angular things have shapes that seem to contain a lot of straight lines and sharp points.
- anorectic — Also, anorectous. having no appetite.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- bony — Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones.
noun skinny
- bulletin — A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- chapter and verse — If you say that someone gives you chapter and verse on a particular subject, you are emphasizing that they tell you every detail about it.
- communication — Communications are the systems and processes that are used to communicate or broadcast information, especially by means of electricity or radio waves.
- communique — A communiqué is an official statement or announcement.
adjective skinny
- emaciated — Abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.
- fleshless — Without flesh, lacking flesh.
- gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
Antonyms for skinny
adj skinny
- alive and kicking — If you say that someone or something is alive and kicking, you are emphasizing not only that they continue to survive, but also that they are very active.
- bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
- beefcake — Attractive men with large muscles can be referred to as beefcake.
- beefy — Someone, especially a man, who is beefy has a big body and large muscles.
- blubbery — of, containing, or like blubber; fat
adjective skinny
- embonpoint — The plump or fleshy part of a person’s body, in particular a woman’s bosom.
- fatlike — Resembling fat (the chemical substance) or some aspect of it.
- gorillalike — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
- gross — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- obese — very fat or overweight; corpulent.
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