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 star of the team, a lanky, brooding kid named Nataanii (Kusem Goodwind), has recently lost his mother and his sister in a drunk-driving accident.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Shealy announces after taking a deep whiff - and the creature itself, tall, lanky and slightly auburn, bounding through the woods.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
Definition of lanky
Adjective
  • Treatments for abnormal ferritin levels may include eating iron-rich foods like lean salmon, leafy green vegetables, and beans.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Harris’s transition team, led by Yohannes Abraham, is low-profile and lean.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of lean
Adjective
  • 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
  • The rangy 6-3 pass-catcher had 41 receptions for 679 yards and seven touchdowns last season.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2024
Definition of rangy
Adjective
  • An overweight cat has left the internet in stitches for trying to muscle in on her skinnier sibling's meal.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • However, the singer and actress has found a foolproof combo that will become a possible solution for all those who resist wearing skinny jeans as the trends dictate again.
    Tatiana Ojea, Glamour, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of skinny
Adjective
  • Keep weedy areas of your yard cut back to deprive them of a place to call home.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Common visitors to feeders for both seed and suet, these birds gather in flocks in weedy fields, roadsides, brushy patches and backyards.
    Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of weedy
Adjective
  • To clean the mesh grilles—the soft, wiry panels in the earbud—dip your toothbrush into a cup of micellar water, and while holding the earbud upright so the mesh is facing you, gently rub the bristles, in a circular motion, across each mesh panel for 15 seconds.
    Julia Ries, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Rogers, a slight man with wiry muscles built over decades of manual labor, moved into the apartment just before migrants from Venezuela began rolling into Denver.
    Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of wiry
Adjective
  • Both have spindly legs, two working rotary knobs on the front for volume and channels and a power button on top.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Anyone visiting the park will want to see the spindly hoodoos, striated in red, gold, and white.
    Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of spindly
Adjective
  • 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
  • Their voices sounded high and reedy, like that of preteen boys.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Definition of reedy
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