emaciated
adjective
[ ɪˈmeɪsɪeɪtɪd ]
• abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.
• "she was so emaciated she could hardly stand"
Similar:
thin,
skeletal,
bony,
wasted,
thin as a rake,
scrawny,
skinny,
scraggy,
skin and bones,
raw-boned,
angular,
sticklike,
size-zero,
starved,
underfed,
undernourished,
underweight,
half-starved,
cadaverous,
shrivelled,
shrunken,
withered,
gaunt,
haggard,
drawn,
pinched,
wizened,
attenuated,
atrophied,
anorexic,
looking like a bag of bones,
phthisical,
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin emaciat- ‘made thin’, from the verb emaciare, from e- (variant of ex-, expressing a change of state) + macies ‘leanness’.
