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Skeletal vs Skeletally - What's the difference?

skeletal | skeletally |

As an adjective skeletal

is of, or relating to the skeleton.

As an adverb skeletally is

pertaining to the skeleton.

skeletal

English

Alternative forms

* sceletal

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, or relating to the skeleton
  • haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt

    • Derived terms

    * musculoskeletal * skeletal age * skeletal animation * skeletal fluorosis * skeletal formula * skeletal muscle * skeletal-muscle pump * skeletal soil * skeletal system

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    skeletally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Pertaining to the skeleton.
  • In a skeletal manner; like a skeleton.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 131:
  • *:A skeletally tall montagnard […], Amirouche had been a member of both the religious Ulema and, in Paris, of Messali's M.T.L.D.