Adjective bony has 3 senses
- bony, 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"
Antonym: fat (indirect, via thin)
- osseous, osteal, bony - composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue"
- bony, boney - having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"
Antonyms: boneless, boned, deboned
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