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raw-boned

raw-boned adjective: not plump or muscular; thin so that the outline of bones may be seen; gaunt.

Adjective

raw-boned (comparative more raw-boned, superlative most raw-boned)

  1. Not plump or muscular; thin so that the outline of bones may be seen; gaunt.
    • A young nurse, a big raw-boned country lass, plodder her way down to the building.1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 194
    Synonyms:
    bare-boned

raw-boned meaning in Malayalam

raw-boned in Malayalam

lean, thin, gaunt
എല്ലും തോലുമായ, മെലിഞ്ഞ, ചടച്ച, ശോഷിച്ച, കെല്ലാരി, ശുഷ്കിച്ച

Synonyms of raw-boned

Forms of raw-boned

comparativemore raw-boned
superlativemost raw-boned

Questions about raw-boned

What does raw-boned mean?
Raw-boned means not plump or muscular; thin so that the outline of bones may be seen; gaunt.
What is raw-boned in Malayalam?
Raw-boned in Malayalam is എല്ലും തോലുമായ, മെലിഞ്ഞ, ചടച്ച. See Raw-boned meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is raw-boned?
Raw-boned is an adjective.

Words near raw-boned in the dictionary

  1. raw sewage
  2. raw sienna
  3. raw siennas
  4. raw silk
  5. raw water
  6. raw-boned
  7. raw-dog
  8. raw-dogged
  9. raw-dogging
  10. raw-dogs
  11. raw-head and bloody-bones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raw-boned (page history and authors); raw-boned (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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