[syn: scrawny, scrubby, stunted]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scrawny \Scraw"ny\ (skr[add]"n[y^]), a. [Cf. Scrannel.]
Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
scrawny
adj 1: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a
long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny,
skinny, underweight, weedy]
2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-
over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny,
scrubby, stunted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrawny":
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angular, anorectic, anorexic, ascetic,
austere, bony, cadaverous, drawn, dwarfed, dwarfish, emaciated,
exiguous, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, frugal, gangling, gangly,
gaunt, gawky, haggard, impoverished, jejune, lank, lanky, lean,
lean-fleshed, lean-looking, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow,
niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, rawboned, reedy,
scant, scanty, scraggy, scrimp, scrimpy, skeletal, skimp, skimpy,
skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, spidery,
spindling, spindly, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened,
stunted, subsistence, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy,
undersized, underweight, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered,
watery