n. a person suffering from anorexia nervosa

adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

adj. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite"

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

adj. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

adj. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

adj. tall and thin

adj. long and lean

adj. having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"

adj. thin as a twig

adj. resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"

adj. of or relating to or resembling skin

adj. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"

adj. having a small waist

adj. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

adj. having long slender legs

adj. of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"

adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"