Crossword clues for bonier
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativebony)
WordNet
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" [syn: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal]
having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist" [syn: boney] [ant: boneless]
See bony
Usage examples of "bonier".
Beyond it rises the great mask of granite forming the apex, a bonier skeleton than any before seen.
The beast beneath him seemed harder, bonier than any he had ever clamped between his legs before, and was surely as strong as any cameloid that Hal had ever ridden.
Where I sat, my head came just a little above her knee, and I never felt a bonier knee in my life.
Set off by her deeply weathered skin, the brilliance of that color made her gray-and-white streaked hair seem dingier, and her thin frame bonier than ever.
After writing to Gratian he had spent the week before his holiday began, in an attempt to renew the youthfulness of his appearance, which made him feel older, leaner, bonier and browner than ever.
It was craggier than any of the others, his forehead bonier, his eyes more deeply set and more malevolent over a cruel gash of a mouth.
She had a bony, pointed chin, an even bonier, sharper nose, and it seemed there were more warts growing hairs on her face than there was face.
She looked worse than anyone, her eyes sunk into her head, her face drawn and bonier than ever, her hair a tangled bush.