scrawny

Adjective

Synonyms: scraggy boney skinny underweight weedy scrubby stunted

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

being very thin“a child with skinny freckled legs”“a long scrawny neck”Synonyms: scraggy boney skinny underweight weedy
inferior in size or quality“scrawny cattle”“scrubby cut-over pine”“old stunted thorn trees”Synonyms: scrubby stunted

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Scrawny \Scraw"ny\ (skr[add]"n[y^]), a. [Cf. Scrannel.] Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny. [1913 Webster]

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