scraggyadjective
uk/ˈskræɡ.i/us/ˈskræɡ.i/disapprovingvery thin and not looking healthy:
He was wearing a scarf to hide his scraggy neck.
a scraggy old cat
not growing well or thickly:
a scraggy beard
scraggy land with sparse vegetation
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)
- anorexic
- bag of bones
- be skin and bone(s) idiom
- elfin
- emaciated
- hatchet-faced
- lissome
- lithe
- pinched
- rangy
- scrawny
- skinny
- slenderize
- slight
- spare
- sylphlike
- trim
- underweight
- waif-like
- wiry
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