Word Meanings - TABID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Affected by tabes; tabetic. In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. -- Tab"id*ly, adv. -- Tab"id*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TABID)

• Flaccid
• Flabby
• limber
• lax
• tabid
• Lean
• Meagre
• lank
• emaciated
• shrivelled
• bony
• thin
• scraggy
• skinny
• slender
• scanty

Related words: (words related to TABID)

• TABID
  Affected by tabes; tabetic. In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. -- Tab"id*ly, adv. -- Tab"id*ness, n.
• FLACCID
  Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh. Religious profession . . . has become flacced. I. Taylor. -- Flac"cid*ly, adv. -- Flac"cid*ness, n.
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• SCRAGGY
  1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips. 2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck." Sir W. Scott.
• LIMBERNESS
  The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.
• LIMBER
  The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. (more info) 1. pl.
• FLACCIDITY
  The state of being flaccid.
• SCANTY
  1. Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. his dominions were very narrow and scanty. Locke. Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. Pope. 2. Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words;
• SKINNY
  Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.
• EMACIATE
  To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." Sir T. Browne. (more info) maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer
• EMACIATION
  1. The act of making very lean. 2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
• MEAGRE
  A large European sciænoid fish ,
• FLABBY
  Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• UNLIMBER
  To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun.
• 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.
• CLIMBER
  One who, or that which, climbs: A plant that climbs. A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.