rawboned

• Abwertend oder veraltet verwendetes Adjektiv, das eine Person oder ein Tier mit einem sehr hageren, knochigen Körperbau und hervortretenden Knochen beschreibt.

An old-fashioned adjective describing a person or animal as having a lean, gaunt frame with prominent bones.

1. Lean and bony physiqueC1formal

   Having a thin, gaunt frame with prominent bones; lacking fleshiness.

   Hager und knochig

   • The rawboned farmer worked tirelessly in the fields.
   • Her rawboned figure was accentuated by her simple dress.
   • He was a rawboned man, tall and angular.

   Synonymeangularbonycadaverousemaciatedgauntlankyleanscraggyskeletalspare

   Antonymechubbycorpulentfatfleshyobeseplumpportly