scrawny

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

being very thin
- "a long scrawny neck"
inferior in size or quality
- "scrawny cattle"

Adj

Thin, malnourished, and weak.

Origin / Etymology

A variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) + -y. Compare Norwegian skran (“lean, thin, skinny”), English scrannel (“lean; meager; poor; worthless”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”).

Synonyms

angular, anorexic, boney, carrion, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, leptosome, macilent, pencil-necked, puny, rangy, rawboned, reedy, scraggy, scrawny, scrubby, skin and bones, skinny, starved, stunted, thin as a rake, undernourished, underweight, wasted, weedy

Antonyms

heavy, large, obese, overweight, strapping

Scrabble Score: 15

scrawny is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
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Words With Friends Score: 16

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