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underfleshed

underfleshed adjective: lacking flesh or substance; skinny or scanty.

Adjective

underfleshed (comparative more underfleshed, superlative most underfleshed)

  1. Lacking flesh or substance; skinny or scanty.
    • His lines are jazzy and improvisational, as though he is trying to figure himself out on the page, and the poems themselves are skinny and underfleshed; one in this new collection is called Poem on Toilet Paper, but they all look as though they were written that way.2007 December 23, David Kirby, “Needing No Weatherman”, in New York Times

Forms of underfleshed

comparativemore underfleshed
superlativemost underfleshed

Origin of underfleshed

From under- + fleshed.

Questions about underfleshed

What does underfleshed mean?
Underfleshed means lacking flesh or substance; skinny or scanty.
What part of speech is underfleshed?
Underfleshed is an adjective.

Words near underfleshed in the dictionary

  1. underflavor
  2. underflavored
  3. underflavors
  4. underflavour
  5. underflavours
  6. underfleshed
  7. underflip
  8. underflips
  9. underfloor
  10. underfloor heating
  11. underflooring

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