skeletal meaning and definition

SKELETAL adjective

Definition of skeletal (adjective)

1. of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton
   • "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
2. 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"
   • synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted