lanky

Meaning of lanky

adjective

(of a person) ungracefully thin and tall.

Information about lanky

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of lanky

lanky

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • lanky is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

lanky synonyms

Meaning gangling:

gangling, gangly, rangy

Meaning of great or more than average height, especially (with reference to an object) relative to width:

tall

Meaning having little, or too little, flesh or fat on the body:

thin

Meaning (of a person or part of the body) gracefully thin:

slender

Meaning (of a person or their build) gracefully thin; slender:

slim

Meaning be in or move into a sloping position:

lean

Meaning (of a person) lanky:

lank

Meaning (of a person or part of their body) unattractively thin:

skinny

Meaning long or tall and thin:

spindly

Meaning with no excess fat; thin:

spare

Meaning (of a person or animal) unattractively thin and bony:

scrawny

Meaning relating to or functioning as a skeleton:

skeletal

Meaning (of a person or animal) thin and bony:

scraggy

Meaning abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food:

emaciated

Meaning of or like bone:

bony

Meaning (of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age:

gaunt

Meaning nervously awkward and ungainly:

gawky

Meaning (of a person or part of their body) lean and having a prominent bone structure:

angular

Meaning tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger:

pinched

Meaning having been reduced in force, effect, or value:

attenuated

Meaning containing or covered with many weeds:

weedy

lanky antonyms

Meaning measuring a small distance from end to end:

short

Meaning (of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh:

fat

Meaning broad and sturdily built:

stocky

Anagrams of lanky

ankyl

Words that rhyme with lanky

Banky, banky, hanky, skanky, blanky, clanky, flanky, planky, manky, pockmanky, spanky, Franky, branky, cranky, pranky, scranky, tranky, Rosanky, tanky, swanky, twanky, wanky, yanky

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