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skeletally

adv

Etymology

From skeletal + -ly.

  1. derived from *(s)kelh₁-✻
  2. derived from σκελετός
  3. borrowed from sceleton
  4. suffixed as skeletal — “skeleton + al”
  5. suffixed as skeletally — “skeletal + ly”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to the skeleton.

  2. In a skeletal manner

    In a skeletal manner; like a skeleton.

    • A skeletally tall montagnard […], Amirouche had been a member of both the religious Ulema and, in Paris, of Messali's M.T.L.D.
    • When I looked back at the table I saw Seamus Cummings, deeply tanned, skeletally thin, sitting on the opposite side a few seats away[.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for skeletally. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA