Qualities

Synonyms for skinny

The synonym for skinny recorded in this bank is scrawny, in the sense "being very thin". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for skinny

scrawnyadjective, in the sense "being very thin"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for skinny.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

being very thin

A child with skinny freckled legs.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

scrawny

Same sentence, swapped: A child with scrawny freckled legs.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot skinny is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

near
furry
hypodermic

Where skinny turns up in the game

skinny is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where skinny is the trap

nearadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is approximate, in the sense "very close in resemblance", and skinny is one of the three tiles that lose.
furryadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is furred, in the sense "covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs", and skinny is on the board beside it.

Play skinny

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so skinny reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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