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skinny
What does skinny mean?
skinny (adjective): being very thin.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce skinny?
/ˈskɪni/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does skinny come from?
From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of skinny?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “skinny”?
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What does “skinny” mean?
possessing life
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being very thin
Right! That's what “skinny” means.
whole; complete
Not quite: that's what entire means.
large in amount
Not quite: that's what considerable means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “skinny”?
bony
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left
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next
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free
Not quite: free means something else.
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