skeletally
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Pertaining to the skeleton.
Example Sentences
- "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[.]"
Etymology
From skeletal + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more skeletally (comparative)
most skeletally (superlative)