big-boned

adjective

Definition of big-bonednext
as in lanky

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for big-boned
  1. lanky
  2. lean
  3. rangy
  4. skinny
  5. weedy
  6. wiry
  7. spindly
  8. reedy
Adjective
  • The footage is grainy but effective, though most of the live track is played over still photos from the show, John shirtless under overalls and Lennon lanky and bespectacled.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The lanky left-hander hurled six shutout innings in Game 6 of the 2021 World Series on the night the Atlanta Braves clinched the championship over the Houston Astros.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of lanky
Adjective
  • With a lean $200,000 marketing budget for a film that cost less than $1 million to make, Hull was grateful for Pratt’s dedication to the project.
    Denise Quan, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Some of that work found that adding resistance training and aerobic exercise to very strict diets did nothing to prevent the disappearance of lean body mass.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of lean
Adjective
  • Georgia did add big Colbie Young from Miami and London Humphreys, a rangy sophomore from Vanderbilt, to boost the corps and help out Dominic Lovett and Dillon Bell.
    Bruce Feldman, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Buddy Hield, who led the Warriors in scoring in their first two games, struggled to create separation against the Clippers’ stockpile of rangy wings.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of rangy
Adjective
  • Paige Gemma Skinny Jean Steal Swift’s gameday style with these faux leather skinny jeans from Paige.
    Averi Baudler, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Loose-fitting denim tends to be more comfortable to wear than tight skinny jeans.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of skinny
Adjective
  • Some lawns have large weedy areas; remove and add new sod or plugs. 9.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Native plants fight for space with weedy elephant grass, Brazilian pepper and other invasive species.
    Patrick Farrell, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2024
Definition of weedy
Adjective
  • The bikes are loud and fast, the drivers are an attractive mixture of confidence, wiry strength and adrenaline.
    James Raia, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The tree made its first TV appearance on The Howdy Doody Show, and decorations went from cranberries and popcorn to red garland, white plastic globes, icicle lights and wiry white angel trumpeters.
    Kate Hogan, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of wiry
Adjective
  • Ringed by mountains and a bald expanse of Arizona desert, red and yellow cranes cast spindly shadows over the cubic skeletons of what will become multistory buildings.
    Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Try a bottle of La Tomato ($19.95, though quite a bit more with shipping), from the Japanese distillery Godo Shusei Co, an ice-clear concoction made with fresh tomato juice; its vegetal sweetness will sing when poured into spindly, garden-green cordial glasses from Ferm Living ($69 for four).
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of spindly
Adjective
  • Chalamet sulks and talks out of the side of his mouth, picking from a grab bag of accents that vary with each scene—all of which are far more reedy and cartoonish than Dylan actually sounded in his younger days.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2024
  • He was guided through the motions of the fry station by a reedy, goateed young man, an actual employee, who had been caught up in the candidate’s maudlin cosplay of worker solidarity.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of reedy
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