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/ˈskɪni/ · adjective
(informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense)..
Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender
skinny flat white
...into the skinny chocolate milk?
Also bring me three quarts of ‘skinny’ milk. What the matter, Mr. Kuziavka, have you just fallen from the moon?! Don't you know about ‘skinny’ milk? It's milk, from which the fat has been removed and...
“All right,” said Katz, who, waiting on his skinny milk latte, turned to snap his fingers at the only waiter in the room.
People always order a "skinny" margarita without knowing exactly what that means for the ingredients. Skinny means the cocktail has a natural sweetener like lime juice or agave nectar, and none of that slushy, syrupy sweet-and-sour mix.
Let's take our clothes oft" and go swimming skinny.
We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks.
Use skinny when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Skinny means (informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense)..
Common synonyms include thin, lean, poop, scraggy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender
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