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skeletal

  • /ˈskɛl.ɪ.təl/ UK
  • /skəˈliː.təl/ UK
  • [ˈskɛl.ɪ.tl̩] UK
  • [skəˈliː.tl̩] UK
  • /ˈskɛl.ə.təl/ US
  • [ˈskɛl.ə.ɾəl] US
  • [ˈskɛl.ə.ɾl̩] US
  • /ˈskel.ə.təl/ Australia
  • /skəˈliː.təl/ Australia
  • [ˈskel.ə.ɾəl] Australia
  • [ˈskəˈliː.ɾəl] Australia

noun skeletals · sceletal

  1. informal Shorthand for skeletal diagram (a black-and-white drawing of a [usually extinct] animal’s skeleton to be used as a reference for paleoart)

adjective more skeletal · most skeletal · sceletal

  1. of, or relating to the skeleton
  2. haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt
  3. barebones, lacking elaboration On the whole, Sidney Morris has given us sketchy characters that need more fine tuning than this production […] could give it. Only Holmberg seemed to dig deeply within himself to create a complete character from Morris' skeletal outline.
  4. Comprising only the base structure of a building, etc. After the bombing, only the skeletal remains of the city could be seen.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cadaverous, pinched, thin, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, lean, bony, wasted, skinny, longnose, bone, skeleton, musculo, scrawny, bonelike

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adj of, or relating to the skeleton

Españolesquelético
Portuguêsesquelético
Françaissquelettique
Deutschskelettal, Skelett-, Knochen-, skelett-
Italianoscheletrico
Românăscheletic

adj haggard

Españolesquelético
Françaissquelettique
Românăscheletic

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@misc{skeletal_2026,
  title = {skeletal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/skeletal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}