Synonyms for lank
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : langk |
| Phonetic Transcription : læŋk |
Top 10 synonyms for lank
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
Définition of lank
Origin :- Old English hlanc "loose and empty, slender, flaccid," from Proto-Germanic *khlankaz, perhaps from a root meaning "flexible" (cf. German lenken "to bend, turn aside," Old Norse hlykkr "bend, noose, loop"), from PIE root *kleng- "to bend, turn" (see link (n.)). "Some examples may be long adj. with unvoicing of g" ["Middle English Dictionary"]
- adj thin
- The trapper slapped his lank, leather-clad thigh in high approval.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- Perhaps the good Samaritan was lean and lank, and found it hard to live.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- Sim cowered in a corner of the box, with his lank fingers in his long hair.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
- The colonel looked at O'Malley's lank and bony frame and smiled.
- Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
- George, who was big and lank, and truculent in appearance, nodded.
- Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss
- He was a lank, bony, yellow-faced man, with big intense eyes.
- Extract from : « Heart of Darkness » by Joseph Conrad
- He was tall and he was lank and he was honest to his last bristling hair.
- Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
- A little taller than Piang, was Sicto, lean and lank of limb.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy » by Florence Partello Stuart
- Presently in came a tall woman, lank, crooked, with only one eye.
- Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
- Professor Scudmore waved a long, lank hand at the little man.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Bravery » by Burt L. Standish
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