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ˈskrɔ niscrawny

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedyadjective

    being very thin

    "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

  2. scrawny, scrubby, stuntedadjective

    inferior in size or quality

    "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

Wiktionary

  1. scrawnyadjective

    Thin, malnourished and weak.

Wikipedia

  1. scrawny

    Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. There are infinite variations in human phenotypes, though society reduces the variability to distinct categories. The physical appearance of humans, in particular those attributes which are regarded as important for physical attractiveness, are believed by anthropologists to affect the development of personality significantly and social relations. Humans are acutely sensitive to their physical appearance. Some differences in human appearance are genetic, others are the result of age, lifestyle or disease, and many are the result of personal adornment. Some people have linked some differences with ethnicity, such as skeletal shape, prognathism or elongated stride. Different cultures place different degrees of emphasis on physical appearance and its importance to social status and other phenomena.

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  1. scrawny

    Scrawny refers to being extremely thin and weak in appearance, often due to lack of nourishment or physical strength. It describes an individual, animal, or thing that lacks flesh, muscle, or bulk. This term will often carry slightly negative connotations, suggesting frailness or undernourishment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scrawnyadjective

    meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny

  2. Etymology: [Cf. Scrannel.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scrawny

    skraw′ni, adj. wasted: raw-boned.—n. Scraw′niness. [Scranny.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scrawny in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scrawny in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of scrawny in a Sentence

  1. Dana Hatch:

    I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims.

  2. Pierre Png:

    I was made to go under a very strict diet and to train under a personal trainer. I am, by nature, on the scrawny side, i had to bulk up within a short time -- three weeks.

  3. Malcolm Muggeridge:

    Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

  4. Susan Adie:

    We are going to see more scrawny bears in the long term, directly linked to a loss of sea ice.

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