skeletal Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. adjective of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton
   
   • the skeletal system
   • skeletal bones
   • skeletal muscles
2. adjective satellite very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
   pinched; bony; emaciated; cadaverous; gaunt; wasted; haggard.
   
   • 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

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