The Clue
Skeletal (4 letter answer)
The Answer
BONY
Tags
Notes
The answer BONY is uncommon, appearing about once every 575 puzzles.
Related Clues
Anorexic
Emaciated
Gaunt
Lean
Osseous
Scrawny
Skinny
Adjective for shad
Excessively thin
Lean as a rake
Like shad
Like a skeleton
Overly thin
Really thin
Very thin
Too thin
More than lean
Thinner than thin
Way too thin
Lacking meat, so to speak
Definition
BONY as an adjective:
1. (bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted) = very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
2. (osseous, osteal, bony) = composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue"
3. (bony, boney) = having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"