Word Meanings - SCRANNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.

Related words: (words related to SCRANNY)

• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• SCRANNEL
  Slight; thin; lean; poor. Having Grate on their scranned pipes of wretched straw. Milton.
• MEAGER; MEAGRE
  Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren. (more info) 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.
• MEAGERLY; MEAGRELY
  Poorly; thinly.
• SCRAWNY
  Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.