Synonyms for skeletal
ˈskɛl ɪ tlskele·tal

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1. skeletaladjective

   of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton

   "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"

   Synonyms:
   cadaverous, wasted, pinched, bony, haggard, gaunt, emaciated

   Antonyms:
   fat

2. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wastedadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   pinched, haggard, atrophied, in straitened circumstances(p), boney, osteal, diminished, drawn, nasal, senseless, gaunt, adenoidal, squandered, purposeless, penurious, hard up, otiose, penniless, osseous, superfluous, cadaveric, cadaverous, careworn, wasted, raddled, bony, impecunious, worn, emaciated, pointless

   Antonyms:
   fat

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1. List of paraphrases for "skeletal":

   skeleton, bone, bony

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1. Connecticut State Archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni:

   Hopefully the skeletal remains will key us in.

2. Juanita Molina:

   Many people die from dehydration, from exposure, but also another element of this is that we find many skeletal remains, so people pass and we don't know why.

3. Nathan Sharps:

   This decreases the chance of muscular-skeletal injury. We look at the soldier as an individual ecosystem. We’re not just looking at what they cannot do right now, but also at what challenges they are going to face 20 years from now.

4. Scott C. Holstad:

   apparitions of stick people torment me, of skeletal phantoms walking in rain deathly dead stick arms upraised to the gods. i knew one such apparition once, cheated of life by a diseased society intent upon deprivation of body and soul, identity as we would have it. i am haunted at times by what could have been.

5. Bob Hill:

   The health benefits of standing include a higher heart rate, greater calorie expenditure, musculo-skeletal benefits that come from standing and better posture, more Oxygen flow around the body, and much more, this leads to a better, reengaged student and teacher interaction. Students pay more attention, and it just leads to a more successful semester overall.