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skeletally

skeletally adverb: pertaining to the skeleton.

Adverb

skeletally (comparative more skeletally, superlative most skeletally)

  1. Pertaining to the skeleton.
  2. In a skeletal manner; like a skeleton.
    • A skeletally tall montagnard […], Amirouche had been a member of both the religious Ulema and, in Paris, of Messali's M.T.L.D.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 131
    • When I looked back at the table I saw Seamus Cummings, deeply tanned, skeletally thin, sitting on the opposite side a few seats away[.]2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 214

Forms of skeletally

comparativemore skeletally
superlativemost skeletally

Origin of skeletally

From skeletal + -ly.

Questions about skeletally

What does skeletally mean?
Skeletally means pertaining to the skeleton.
What part of speech is skeletally?
Skeletally is an adverb.

Words near skeletally in the dictionary

  1. skeletalization
  2. skeletalize
  3. skeletalized
  4. skeletalizes
  5. skeletalizing
  6. skeletally
  7. skeleto-
  8. skeletochronologic
  9. skeletochronological
  10. skeletochronologically
  11. skeletochronology

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