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Definition of Scrawniness
1. Noun. The bodily property of lacking flesh.
Generic synonyms: Leanness, Spareness, Thinness
Derivative terms: Scrawny, Skinny
2. Noun. The property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality. "The scrawniness of sickly trees"
Generic synonyms: Inferiority, Low Quality
Derivative terms: Scrawny, Scrubby, Scrubby
Definition of Scrawniness
1. Noun. The property of being scrawny. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrawniness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrawniness
Literary usage of Scrawniness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1915)
"... the scrawniness of the stringed neck somewhere in the floss of that hair, the
timidity of those too-small pale hands which are, one is sure, ..."
2. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1895)
"... forbid that I should call it scrawniness!), a deficiency of physical development,
a scantiness, so to speak, in the pattern of their material make, ..."
3. The American Novel by Carl Van Doren (1921)
"The stiffness and scrawniness of youth appears more obviously in his purely
American stories than in those narrated against a European background, ..."
4. Our Old Home: And English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1898)
"... in the persons of such of my dear countrywomen as I now occasionally met, a
certain meagreness, (Heaven forbid that I should call it scrawniness ! ..."
5. Our Old Home: And English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1898)
"... in the persons of such of my dear countrywomen as I now occasionally met, a
certain meagreness, (Heaven forbid that I should call it scrawniness ! ..."
6. Our Old Home, and English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1912)
"... in the persons of such of my dear countrywomen as I now occasionally met, a
certain meagreness, (Heaven forbid that I should call it scrawniness ! ..."
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