Tra từ skinny - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

skin‧ny/ˈskɪni/ adjective (comparative skinnier, superlative skinniest)
1. very thin, especially in a way that is unattractive:
　 ▪ Some supermodels are far too skinny.

2. skinny trousers fit tightly all the way down the legs:
　 ▪ skinny jeans

3. made with skimmed milk (=milk with all the fat and cream removed from it):
　 ▪ a skinny latte
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THESAURUS
person
▪thin having little fat on your body :
　 ▪ a tall, thin man
▪slim thin in an attractive way :
　 ▪ her slim figure
　 ▪ a slim woman in her fifties
　 ▪ Magazines are always full of advice about how to stay slim.
▪slender written thin in an attractive and graceful way – used especially about parts of the body, and used especially about women :
　 ▪ her long, slender legs
　 ▪ She is slender, with very fair hair.
▪lean thin and looking healthy and fit :
　 ▪ his lean body
　 ▪ He was lean and looked like a runner.
▪skinny very thin in a way that is not attractive :
　 ▪ a skinny teenager
　 ▪ Your arms are so skinny!
▪slight written thin and delicate :
　 ▪ a small, slight girl with big eyes
▪scrawny /ˈskrɔːni $ ˈskrɒː-/ very thin, small, and weak-looking :
　 ▪ a scrawny kid in blue jeans
▪underweight below the usual weight for someone of your height, and therefore too thin :
　 ▪ He had no appetite and remained underweight.
▪gaunt /ɡɔːnt $ ɡɒːnt/ written very thin and pale, especially because of illness or continued worry :
　 ▪ He looked gaunt and had not shaved for days.
▪emaciated /ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtəd, ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd, -si-/ written extremely thin and weak, because you are ill or not getting enough to eat :
　 ▪ The tents were filled with emaciated refugees.
▪skeletal written used about someone who is so thin that you can see the shape of their bones :
　 ▪ The soldiers were shocked by the skeletal figures of the camp’s prisoners.
▪anorexic used about someone who is extremely thin because they have a mental illness that makes them stop eating :
　 ▪ Her daughter is anorexic.
　 ▪ anorexic teenagers

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
too
▪ The animals must not be diseased, too old or too skinny.
▪ They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.
▪ I was too skinny to wear the smallest weight belt.
NOUN
leg
▪ This was Olga - even to her skinny legs!
▪ Her skinny legs and swollen ankles, covered with white stockings, rest unnaturally on the footrests of her chair.
man
▪ Here was this skinny man, unafraid, in the midst of all this danger.
▪ I stopped, and the skinny man heard me and turned, Unmistakable.
▪ He looked up, expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps.
▪ A tall, skinny man, with a soft voice that sometimes strikes the court as coming from behind his left ear.
▪ A skinny man who looked as if he didn't sleep nights.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ skinny little kids
▪ a skinny kid with glasses
▪ I was really skinny when I was a teenager.
▪ Jacob placed his arm around her skinny shoulders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the time I'd recovered I was skinnier than ever, having been rationed to an orange a day.
▪ Even in a bulky warm-up suit, sitting hunched over the handlebars, she looks skinny.
▪ He had startlingly blue eyes and dark tumbling curls over his forehead; a narrow face; a skinny body.
▪ I would be a skinny person.
▪ They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.
▪ They strain every muscle as they pedal; their bodies glisten with sweat; all are skinny, some wasted.
▪ Think skinny asparagus spears with broccoli tops.