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LANKY (lankier, lankiest)
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, lankiest Dictionary entry overview: What does lanky mean?
• LANKY (adjective)
The adjective LANKY has 2 senses:
1. tall and thin and having long slender limbs
2. tall and thin
Familiarity information: LANKY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: lankiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall and thin and having long slender limbs
Synonyms:
gangling; gangly; lanky; rangy
Context example:
a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man
Similar:
tall (great in vertical dimension; high in stature)
Derivation:
lankiness (a tall and thin physique)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tall and thin
Synonyms:
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
Derivation:
lankiness (a tall and thin physique)
Context examples
It belongs to a group of dinosaurs known as the scansoriopterygids, which all contain lanky arms, but it's only the second fossil found in the group to contain the styliform bone.
(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The young pugilist, who had a curious, lanky figure, and a craggy, bony face, passed his fingers through his close-cropped hair.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Why shrink, my honey-bird? Why so afeard, my sweet cinnamon?” exclaimed the other, a loose-jointed lanky youth with a dancing, roguish eye.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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