释义 |
View usage for: (boʊni) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones. ...an old man with a bony face and white hair. He poked a long bony finger in Billy's chest. Synonyms: thin, lean, skinny, angular More Synonyms of bony 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]The bony parts of a person's or animal's body are the parts made of bone. ...the bony ridge of the eye socket. 3. graded adjectiveIf you describe fish that you are eating as bony, you mean that it has a lot of bones. ...a delicious but extremely bony fish. (ˈbəʊnɪ) adjectiveWord forms: bonier or boniest1. resembling or consisting of bone or bones 3. having prominent bones bony cheeks 4. thin or emaciated a bony stray dog Derived forms boniness (ˈboniness) noun (ˈboʊni) adjectiveWord forms: ˈbonier or ˈboniest3. having large or protruding bones Examples of 'bony' in a sentencebony Dead branches emerge like bony fingers from the thick canopy of leaves.His bony fingers drummed more loudly.She turned back to the window, bony fingers drumming on the sill.She suddenly held up a small, bony finger and pointed across the room.But they are stiff, bony fish and the young birds cannot eat them easily.There are few in the world who would not recognise his bony, bearded face and gaunt frame.The man's eyes were full of terror as he scanned the scene around him from beneath his sagging eyelids and bony sockets.The insulin of the more advanced bony fish, reptiles, and mammals is a little cluster of six chains.They can get up to 10ft and can weigh a ton, which makes them the largest bony fish in the world. British English: bony ADJECTIVE Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands. ...an old man with a bony face and white hair. - American English: bony
- Brazilian Portuguese: ossudo
- Chinese: 瘦削的
- European Spanish: huesudo
- French: osseux
- German: knochig
- Italian: ossuto
- Japanese: やせた
- Korean: 뼈가 앙상한
- European Portuguese: ossudo
- Latin American Spanish: huesudo
Chinese translation of 'bony' adj - [arm, face, fingers, person]
瘦的 (shòu de) - (Anat)
骨的 (gǔ de) - [fish]
多刺的 (duōcì de)
Definition thin an old man with a bony face and white hair Synonyms undernourished rawboned macilent (rare) Additional synonymsDefinition lean and bony He had an angular face with prominent cheekbones. Synonyms skinny, spare, lean, gaunt, bony, lanky, scrawny, lank, rangy, rawboned, macilent (rare) Definition pale, thin, and haggard a tall, thin man with a cadaverous face Synonyms deathly, pale, ghastly, wan, blanched, gaunt, haggard, emaciated, bloodless, pallid, ashen, hollow-eyed, corpse-like, like death warmed up (informal), deathlike, exsanguinous Definition extremely thin through illness or lack of food We were shocked by the emaciated faces in the photo. Synonyms skeletal, thin, weak, lean, pinched, skinny, wasted, gaunt, bony, haggard, atrophied, scrawny, attenuate, attenuated, undernourished, scraggy, half-starved, cadaverous, macilent (rare) - bonhomie
- bonny
- bonus
- bony
- booby
- book
- book in
|