Emaciated vs Skinny - What's the difference?
emaciated | skinny | Synonyms |
Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.
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(informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
(informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
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Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
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(colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
A state of nakedness; nudity.
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A skinny being
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As adjectives the difference between emaciated and skinny
is that emaciated is thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease while skinny is having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.As a verb emaciated
is past tense of emaciate.As a noun skinny is
the details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.emaciated
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(en adjective)- The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.
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(er)- Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender
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(skinnies)- She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.