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SKINNY
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Irregular inflected forms: skinnier , skinniest
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confidential information about a topic or person
Example:
he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("skinny" is a kind of...):
info; information (a message received and understood)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being very thin
Example:
pale bony hands
Synonyms:
boney; bony; scraggly; scraggy; scrawny; skinny; underweight; weedy
Classified under:
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
Derivation:
skinniness (the bodily property of lacking flesh)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Giving or spending with reluctance
Example:
a penny-pinching miserly old man
Synonyms:
cheeseparing; close; near; penny-pinching; skinny
Classified under:
Similar:
stingy; ungenerous (unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Fitting snugly
Example:
tight-fitting clothes
Synonyms:
skinny; tight-fitting; tight fitting; tightfitting; tightly fitting
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
tight (closely constrained or constricted or constricting)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to or resembling skin
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
skin (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
Derivation:
skin (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
