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deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed

adj. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

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anorexic, anorectic

adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

bladed

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

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

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"

compressed, flat

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

slender, slight, slim, svelte

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"

gangling, gangly, lanky

adj. tall and thin

lank, spindly

adj. long and lean

rawboned

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

twiggy, twiglike

adj. thin as a twig

scarecrowish

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

skinny

adj. of or relating to or resembling skin

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken

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"

slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted

adj. having a small waist

spare, trim

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

spindle-legged, spindle-shanked

adj. having long slender legs

wiry

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

wisplike, wispy

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

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened

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"

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