Qualities

Synonyms for skeletal

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

A nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

wasted

Same sentence, swapped: A nightmare population of gaunt men and wasted boys.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for skeletal as it is used in the sentence above.

gawky
undersized
spidery

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Closest first: other qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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