adjective
- relating to or resembling a skeleton
- extremely thin or emaciated
- relating to Skeltonic verse, a type of irregular rhyming poetry
Usage: literary
Examples
- The skeletonic remains were carefully excavated by archaeologists.
- After months of illness, he had a skeletonic appearance.
- The patient’s skeletonic frame worried the doctors.
- She studied the skeletonic structure of the ancient building.
- The poet experimented with skeletonic verse in his latest work.
- The skeletonic outline of the tree stood against the winter sky.