241 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ lˈaŋki], [ lˈaŋki], [ l_ˈa_ŋ_k_i]

Related words: tall, lanky person, lanky guy, lanky women, lanky men, lanky girl, lanky boy, lanky people

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Similar words for lanky:

• gangling (adjective)
• lank (adjective)
• lean (adjective)
• long (adjective)
• meager (adjective)
• narrow (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• overlong (adjective)
• rangy (adjective)
• scrawny (adjective)
• skinny (adjective)
• slender (adjective)
• stringy (adjective)
• tall (adjective)
• thin (adjective)
• lanky (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Homophones for lanky

Synonyms for Lanky:

• adj.

  • gangling (adjective)
  • leggy,
  • leggier,
  • long-legged,
  • long-limbed,
  • gangly,
  • gangling.
  • lank (adjective)
  • thin as a rail,
  • more fleshless,
  • all skin bones,
  • most fleshless,
  • thin as rail,
  • all skin and bones.
  • lean (adjective)
  • in-fertile,
  • more beanpole,
  • in fertile,
  • most shadow,
  • stilter,
  • un-fruitful,
  • more shadow,
  • in-adequate,
  • stilt,
  • stiltest,
  • most sylphlike,
  • scraggier,
  • in adequate,
  • un fruitful,
  • un productive,
  • most beanpole,
  • more sylphlike,
  • un-productive,
  • stickest.
  • long (adjective)
  • outstretched,
  • protracted,
  • spun out,
  • spread out,
  • far off,
  • longish,
  • faraway,
  • stretching.
  • meager (adjective)
  • more broomstick,
  • most broomstick,
  • most stinted,
  • most beanstalk,
  • lithe,
  • more stinted,
  • skin bones,
  • more beanstalk,
  • more rattleboned,
  • most rattleboned,
  • more starved.
  • narrow (adjective)
  • narrow,
  • skeletal,
  • slim,
  • tight,
  • fine,
  • willowy,
  • tenuous.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • lank,
  • malnourished,
  • twiggy,
  • gracile,
  • rattleboned,
  • stringy,
  • angular,
  • long,
  • poler,
  • skyscraping,
  • scraggy,
  • sylphlike,
  • tall,
  • featherweight,
  • sticker,
  • skinny,
  • skin and bones,
  • scraggiest,
  • broomstick,
  • no fat,
  • lithesome,
  • over-long,
  • gristly,
  • rangy,
  • ropy,
  • altitudinous,
  • High-reaching,
  • like a rail,
  • spindly,
  • scrawny,
  • skin-and-bone,
  • undernourished,
  • Stalky,
  • rawboned,
  • ropier,
  • twiglike,
  • slender,
  • beanstalk,
  • skin-and-bones,
  • ungainly,
  • weedy,
  • spare.
  • overlong (adjective)
  • long drawn out,
  • drawnout,
  • over long.
  • rangy (adjective)
  • reedy.
  • scrawny (adjective)
  • more undernourished,
  • most undernourished,
  • under nourished,
  • under weight,
  • more skin and bones,
  • most skin-and-bones,
  • most skin and bones,
  • under-nourished,
  • under-weight,
  • more skin-and-bones.
  • skinny (adjective)
  • more malnourished,
  • most malnourished,
  • most skin and bone,
  • skin and bone,
  • most skin-and-bone,
  • more skin-and-bone,
  • like rail,
  • more skin and bone.
  • slender (adjective)
  • in-considerable,
  • more gracile,
  • more lithesome,
  • most lithesome,
  • in considerable,
  • out side,
  • most gracile.
  • stringy (adjective)
  • gristlier,
  • gristliest,
  • threadlike,
  • ropiest.
  • tall (adjective)
  • most altitudinous,
  • sky-high,
  • most high-reaching,
  • most high reaching,
  • more skyscraping,
  • high reaching,
  • most skyscraping,
  • sky high,
  • more highreaching,
  • most highreaching,
  • more altitudinous,
  • highreaching,
  • more high reaching,
  • more high-reaching,
  • skyhigh.
  • thin (adjective)
  • most attenuated,
  • more attenuate,
  • most pinched,
  • most featherweight,
  • most attenuate,
  • stalkiest,
  • most twiglike,
  • polest,
  • more twiglike,
  • most shriveled,
  • more featherweight,
  • more attenuated,
  • more pinched,
  • more shriveled,
  • stalkier.

• n.

  •
  • anorexic,
  • be (all) skin and bone(s).
  •
  • meager.
  • lanky (noun)
  • lean.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • characteristic.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • thin.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • emaciated,
  • gawky,
  • pinched,
  • Fleshless,
  • cadaverous,
  • slightly built,
  • underweight.
  •
  • gaunt,
  • spectral,
  • slight,
  • Spindling,
  • puny,
  • bony.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • high,
  • skeleton,
  • flimsy,
  • withered,
  • meagre,
  • half-starved,
  • starveling,
  • haggard,
  • spindleshanks,
  • bag of bones,
  • huge,
  • large,
  • lissom,
  • corpse,
  • giant,
  • lantern-jawed,
  • underfed,
  • fatless,
  • loose-jointed,
  • shrunken,
  • spareribs,
  • wispy,
  • attenuated,
  • shrivelled,
  • tallish,
  • thinner,
  • flat,
  • hatchet-faced,
  • svelte,
  • lengthy,
  • colossal,
  • big,
  • shadow,
  • Overlong,
  • Raw-boned,
  • wiry,
  • Rackabones,
  • undersized,
  • beanpole,
  • boney,
  • Macilent,
  • statuesque,
  • hollow-cheeked,
  • scrag,
  • wasted,
  • worn,
  • bean pole,
  • sparse,
  • spidery,
  • rattlebones,
  • Extenuated,
  • spindlelegs,
  • starved,
  • graceful,
  • clothes pole,
  • lofty,
  • flat-chested,
  • Barebone,
  • gigantic,
  • lissome.

Homophones for Lanky:

• leanness, lineage, lungyi, lens, Lyonnaise Sauce, lanchow, lying, Lamiaceae, lyonnaise, linnaeus, lung, line coach, lense, Lamna Nasus, loyang, limosa, longish, lammas, loaning, lemon juice, linac, lyonnais, language, lemnos, linkage, leaning, lanchou, lionise, lime juice, lansa, lulling, luminous, lank, lowness, long ago, limning, launce, lounge, luminesce, linage, leuwenhoek, lynch, lenience, lionize, launch, lanugo, leniency, laying, links, luoyang, luminance, lion monkey, lemnaceae, languish, lioness, long, lameness, low mass, lingo, Lillian Gish, limax, longwise, ling, lance, lilongwe, lallans, linaceae, linz, Lynx, lange, lamaze, long-ago, loins, lining, leymus, lemming, lyons, longyi, lanius, lunge, limnos, lummox, leeuwenhoek, low-lying, lemmus, link, lingua, Ling Ko, lemniscus, liomys, lanseh, lunch, lanzhou, lemon cheese, lungi, lennoaceae, longways, Lowliness, lonas, linux, linguica, lunacy.