bony
Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
Other meanings
With little flesh; skinny, thin.
“That bony fellow could use a few hot dinners.”
Having prominent bones.
Synonyms
- skinny
Related words
- bonytail
- bony labyrinth
- infrabony
- intrabony
- nonbony
- suprabony
- bonily
- boniness
- bony bream
- bony fish
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "bony".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “bony” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.