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skeletonic

skeletonic adjective: like a skeleton.

Adjective

skeletonic (comparative more skeletonic, superlative most skeletonic)

  1. Like a skeleton.
    • He was very tall and skeletonic, and must have been in his seventies.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 69

Forms of skeletonic

comparativemore skeletonic
superlativemost skeletonic

Origin of skeletonic

From skeleton + -ic.

Questions about skeletonic

What does skeletonic mean?
Skeletonic means like a skeleton.
What part of speech is skeletonic?
Skeletonic is an adjective.

Words near skeletonic in the dictionary

  1. skeleton watch
  2. skeleton watches
  3. skeletoned
  4. skeletoneer
  5. skeletoneers
  6. skeletonic
  7. skeletoning
  8. skeletonisation
  9. skeletonisations
  10. skeletonise
  11. skeletonised

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