bony (redirected from boneyest)

bon·y or bon·ey  (bn)

adj. bon·i·er or bon·ey·er, bon·i·est or bon·ey·est

1. Of, relating to, resembling, or consisting of bone.

2. Having an internal skeleton of bones.

3. Full of bones: a bony fillet of fish.

4.

a. Having prominent or protruding bones: a bony wrist.

b. Lean; scrawny.

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boni·ness n.

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bony [ˈbəʊnɪ]

adj bonier, boniest

1. resembling or consisting of bone or bones

2. having many bones

3. having prominent bones bony cheeks

4. thin or emaciated a bony old woman

boniness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	bony - 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" cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
	2.	bony - composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" osseous, osteal
	3.	bony - having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" boney boneless - being without a bone or bones; "jellyfish are boneless"

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bony

adjective thin, lean, skinny, angular, gaunt, skeletal, haggard, emaciated, scrawny, undernourished, cadaverous, rawboned, macilent (rare) an old man with a bony face and white hair

Translations

bony [ˈbəʊnɪ] ADJ (bonier (compar) (boniest (superl)))

1. (= having bones) → huesudo; [fish] → espinoso, lleno de espinas

2. (= like bone) → óseo

3. (= thin) [person] → flaco, delgado

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bony [ˈbəʊni] adj

(= thin) [face, hands, fingers] → osseux/euse; [person] → anguleux/euse

(ANATOMY) (= made of bone) [tissue, jaw, ridge] → osseux/euse

[fish] → plein(e) d'arêtes

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bony

adj (+er) (= of bone) → knöchern; (= like bone) → knochenartig; person, knee, hips → knochig; fish → grätig, mit viel Gräten; meat → mit viel Knochen

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bony [ˈbəʊnɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (thin, person) → angoloso/a, ossuto/a; (made of bone, frame) → osseo/a; (fish) → pieno/a di lische; (meat) → con parecchio osso; (like bone) → simile a osso

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bony bone