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skeletal

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Definition of skeletal

adjective

  • 1relating to or functioning as a skeleton:the skeletal remains of aquatic organisms
  • very thin; emaciated:a small, skeletal boy clothed in rags
  • 2existing only in outline or as a framework of something:a skeletal plot for a novel

Derivatives

skeletally

adverb
[as submodifier]:skeletally gaunt

skeletal in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of skeletal in the US English dictionary