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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bony has 3 senses
- bony(s = adj.all) cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted - 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" Derived forms noun boniness1, noun bonyness1
- bony(a = adj.pert) osseous, osteal - composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" Derived form noun bone1
- bony(a = adj.all) boney - having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" Derived form noun bone1
Antonym: boneless
CIDE DICTIONARY
bony, a.
- Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones. [1913 Webster]
- Having large or prominent bones. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bony, adj. (bonier, boniest)
1 (of a person) thin with prominent bones.
2 having many bones.
3 of or like bone.
4 (of a fish) having bones rather than cartilage.
1 (of a person) thin with prominent bones.
2 having many bones.
3 of or like bone.
4 (of a fish) having bones rather than cartilage.
Derivative
boniness n.
THESAURUS
bony
angular, bone, cement, cemental, concrete, corneous, dense, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, flintlike, flinty, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, horny, iron-hard, ironlike, lank, lanky, lapideous, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, meager, obdurate, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous, ossified, osteal, rawboned, resistant, resistive, rocklike, rocky, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, solid, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tough, twiggy, undersized, underweightROGET THESAURUS
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Hardness
N hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.
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